<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 18:35, Robby Findler <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

This works fine for me (and is something that is pretty heavily relied<br>
on for more than a decade now):<br>
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[robby@penghu] ~/Desktop$ export PLTCOLLECTS=/home/robby/something:<br>
[robby@penghu] ~/Desktop$ racket<br>
Welcome to Racket v5.0.1.2.<br>
&gt; (current-library-collection-paths)<br>
&#39;(#&lt;path:/home/robby/something&gt;<br>
  #&lt;path:/Users/robby/Library/Racket/<a href="http://5.0.1.2/collects" target="_blank">5.0.1.2/collects</a>&gt;<br>
  #&lt;path:/Users/robby/git/exp/plt/collects&gt;)<br>
&gt; ^D<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>my bad, obviously: I forgot to &quot;export&quot;... The variable was then available to the command line but not to child process.<br>Thanks.<br></div>

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