On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:33 PM, Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 20:33 -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: > >> Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I want to make this work on windows I >> can't use System.Posix, right? If so, what is the portable way to set >> environment variables? I see[1] that getEnv exists in >> System.Environment, but setEnv is in System.Posix.Env. I looked in >> System.Win32 and I didn't see anything that looked like it would >> manipulate environment variables. Will I have to use >> System.Process.runProcess on Win32? I'd like this to work on ghc 6.6 >> and System.Process looks new? > > Right. Typically you do not need to change the env vars for your own > process, just to pass new ones to new processes and > System.Process.runProcess lets you specify a new set of environment > vars.
Thanks. I just tried this out and it should do what I want. I see that I just fetch the current environment, append or update it and then pass it to runProcess. > > As you can check, System.Process.runProcess has been around since ghc > 6.6 (and before): Thanks, it's really nice to have that unambiguously be in 6.6. Jason _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
