On 11 May 2008, at 08:25:47, Tony Crockford wrote:
Background:
I have a PHP script that uses exec() to run ImageMagick to make jpg
thumbnails from PDF's (needs ghostscript too)
it worked more or less out of the box on Tiger - I installed Mac
Ports from the .pkg installer and IIRC that was it.
on Leopard (using the native install of Apache) I have added /opt/
local/bin to my $PATH and while ImageMagick works fine like that it
couldn't find Ghostscript until I edited IM's delegate.xml file to
include the full path to gs
I suppose my question is, does anyone know why that might be, and
how I could tell Apache to use my $PATH variable?
In Mac OS X 10.5.x, Apple diddled with how PATH and MANPATH are
generated.
If you want all users on your system to have /opt/local/bin and /opt/
local/sbin in their PATH. Create the following file, /private/etc/
paths.d/Macports. The file should contain each path element on a
separate line.
You can do the same for /opt/local/share/man for man pages, this time
create the following file, /private/etc/manpaths.d/Macports with each
element on a separate line.
When you reboot, Apache will see the new paths.
There is a catch with this method. Apple has an application that
ensures that /usr/bin and /usr/sbin will precede all other {s}bin
directories in the path. Actually, it may be a shell script.
Regardless, I can't recall its name at the moment.
Merton Campbell Crockett
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