At 10:38 -0400 6/10/11, Sherm Pendley wrote: >On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:34 AM, John Delacour <j...@bd8.com> wrote: >> What would be the effect of setting a value (or no value) for PERL5LIB in >> ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist? > >That plist is for setting up environment variables for GUI apps. It >has no effect on shell sessions.
That's not the case for 10.3.9. Has it changed? I have been defining $PERL5LIB and some other stuff in environment.plist for years mostly because of AppleScripts I like to use. Most of the scripts are executed with osascript from a shell and they work fine with no additional redefinition in .tcshrc. They also work OK when I log in to 10.3.9 from a Linux box or use bbedit worksheets. I always thought environment.plist was just a way to be sure things were set immediately after the sort of login that is used to start up the machine rather than waiting for a shell style login. -- --> A fair tax is one that you pay but I don't <--
