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diff --git a/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn b/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..63ac4bc31 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/ikiwiki_ignores_PATH_environment.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +At the very top of the main ikiwiki executable script the `PATH` environment is set like this: + + $ENV{PATH}="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/local/bin"; + +This makes it a little hard to specify which specific binaries should be used, especially if there is more than one of them available (see c.f. <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/26333> where the MacPorts-supplied, up-to-date subversion should be used and not an arcane one from the base distro / OS). Is there a specific reason why ikiwiki wipes out `$PATH` like this or could that line be improved to + + $ENV{PATH}="$ENV{PATH}:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/local/bin"; + +? The alternative is of course to patch ikiwiki as suggested in the bug, but I wanted to ask here first :) |