mlm@cs.brown.edu (04/25/89)
Elisp Gurus,
I am using gnuemacs distribution 18.53, and i need to change the PATH
used when emacs spawns subprocesses. Specifically, i want the compile
library to use one of two paths, depending on which source directory i
am compiling in. Changing the exec-path has proved futile so far, so
i'd sure appreciate some help. I have changed both exec-path and
process-environment to no avail. Whenever i start up a process, it
always inherits the environment of the original emacs. Is there no
way to change the environment of an already-executing emacs?
The simplest way to observe this is to change exec-path and/or
process-environment by hand and then start up a shell from within
emacs and say 'echo $PATH'. Emacs seems to have completely ignored
the changes made to the elisp environment.
Oh well,
-matt
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