[racket] calling osx binaries from racket

On 25.08.10 20:10, John Clements wrote:
> IIUC, the basic problem here is that on the mac, many users don't start racket from a terminal window, which means that there isn't a $PATH value to inherit.
>
> One solution to this is (as I do) to simply start drracket from the command-line.  In this case, you inherit the $PATH environment just fine. I conjecture that you (Jakub) do this as well.

Unfortunatelly you're right. I must have used 'open <racket-file>.rkt' 
to start this particular racket session. When I start it from the Dock I 
get the usual GUI PATH. Sorry for the confusion.

That said:
1. Trying several popular paths is probably a good idea (an example of 
worse is better)
2. Running the command in a subshell (one obtained from /etc/passwd or 
Terminal.app configuration) should also work (but requires you to do 
argument quoting)

-- 
regards,
Jakub Piotr Cłapa