[Locomotive-users] Locomotive Terminal destroys my PATH

[Justin Case Schilder]

Open locomotive's preferences pane. Under the terminal tab you can add
additional paths.

On Mon, December 10, 2007 6:26 pm, Ronald Fischer wrote:
> I'm using Locomotive 2.0.8 on the Mac.
>
> My .bash_profile - in its essence - looks like this:
>
>    export PATH=.:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH
>
> Now I found that when I open a Terminal from within Locomotive (i.e.
> Applications/OpenTerminal), /usr/local/mysql/bin is missing from my
> PATH (although ~/bin is there).
>
> I traced what happens (set -x in .bash_profile) and found the
> following:
>
> First, my PATH is set in the expected way, i.e.
>
> + export PATH=.:/Users/fusshuhn/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/mysql/
> bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
>
> But after that, I see the following statement in the trace:
>
> source /private/var/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems/2A10481D-7F30-4633-
> A1DA-2EBB84EC987A-260-00000575DDDFE4E0.environment.bash
>
> It seems that Locomotive has created a temporary file containing bash
> commands,
> which are now source (after my .bash_profile). During this process, I
> see the
> execution of the following command:
>
> ++ export PATH=/Applications/Locomotive2/Bundles/
> standardRailsMar2007.locobundle/i386/bin:/Applications/Locomotive2/
> Bundles/standardRailsMar2007.locobundle/i386/sbin:/Users/fusshuhn/
> bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:
>
> It is at this place, where my PATH is changed.
>
> Interestingly, Locomotive *does* include my $HOME/bin. Historically,
> my first version
> of .bash_profile included only $HOME/bin in my PATH. Then I installed
> Locomotive,
> then I ran the Tools/Terminal.appStartupFixTool, and finally I
> installed MySql and
> updated .bash_profile so that it now contains also the directory /usr/
> local/mysql/bin.
> Could it be that Locomotive, does not recognized the changes I did in
> my profile?
>
> Well, I run the StarupFix Tool again, but no change: I still don't
> have my MySql
> directory included in my PATH...
>
> Is this a bug in Locomotive?
>
> Ronald
>
> --
> Ronald Fischer <ronald.fischer at fusshuhn.de>
> http://www.fusshuhn.de/
>
>
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