[plt-scheme] process.ss can't find command

On Mar 11, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure whats going wrong here, but I'm trying to use the system
> command supplied by
> (require scheme/system) or (require (lib "process.ss" "mzlib"))
> 
> It seems to get a different version of $PATH on my osx machine
> 
> this code;
> ;#lang scheme/base
> ;(require scheme/system)
> (require (lib "process.ss" "mzlib"))
> ;(system "svn add svn-commit.scm")
> (system "echo $PATH")

BTW, you can use (getenv "PATH")


> [...]
> 
> I'm assuming that;
> 1. $PATH is [normally] the same for bash and /bin/sh
> ie
> $ /bin/sh
> sh-2.05b$ echo $PATH
> /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin

PATH is an environment variable, so when you run /bin/sh you simply
inherit whatever PATH you currently have.  For example, if you change
it with

  export PATH=/foo/bar:$PATH

then the subshell will have that two.  The same applies for mzscheme
and drscheme -- you should see the same results if you replace `/bin/sh'
in these experiments with

  mzscheme -e '(getenv "PATH")'

So, my guess is that you started DrScheme by double clicking its icon,
which gives you the set of paths in PATH that the Finder has.
Starting a terminal is probably adding a bunch of stuff like the
"/opt" and "/sw" things.

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