swift 05/05/05 17:21:36 Modified: xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook hb-working-variables.xml Log: Not all variable contents is concatenated. Provide a listing of all SPECIALS variables.
Revision Changes Path 1.12 +12 -3 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml file : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml?rev=1.12&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=gentoo plain: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml?rev=1.12&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=gentoo diff : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml.diff?r1=1.11&r2=1.12&cvsroot=gentoo Index: hb-working-variables.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml,v retrieving revision 1.11 retrieving revision 1.12 diff -u -r1.11 -r1.12 --- hb-working-variables.xml 20 Nov 2004 22:23:30 -0000 1.11 +++ hb-working-variables.xml 5 May 2005 17:21:36 -0000 1.12 @@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ <!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license --> <!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0 --> -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml,v 1.11 2004/11/20 22:23:30 neysx Exp $ --> +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/hb-working-variables.xml,v 1.12 2005/05/05 17:21:36 swift Exp $ --> <sections> -<version>1.8</version> -<date>2004-08-30</date> +<version>1.9</version> +<date>2005-05-05</date> <section> <title>Environment Variables?</title> @@ -232,6 +232,15 @@ </pre> <p> +The concatenation of variables does not always happen, only with the following +variables: <c>KDEDIRS</c>, <c>PATH</c>, <c>CLASSPATH</c>, <c>LDPATH</c>, +<c>MANPATH</c>, <c>INFODIR</c>, <c>INFOPATH</c>, <c>ROOTPATH</c>, +<c>CONFIG_PROTECT</c>, <c>CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK</c>, <c>PRELINK_PATH</c> and +<c>PRELINK_PATH_MASK</c>. For all other variables the latest defined value (in +alphabetical order of the files in <path>/etc/env.d</path>) is used. +</p> + +<p> When you run <c>env-update</c>, the script will create all environment variables and place them in <path>/etc/profile.env</path> (which is used by <path>/etc/profile</path>). It will also extract the information from the -- [email protected] mailing list
