Re: [gentoo-user] emerge with another PATH

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

karl@aspodata.se wrote:
> Neil Bothwick:
>> On Fri, 20 May 2022 15:55:22 +0200 (CEST), karl@aspodata.se wrote:
>>> How do I run emerge so that when buildin/emerging the package another
>>> PATH is used ?
>> PATH is just an environment variable, so
>>
>> PATH="/path1:/path2" emerge blah
>>
>> should do that.
> Doesn't seems to work...
>
> # echo $PATH
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/texlive/2022/bin/x86_64-linux
> # emerge -aqvu  app-text/dblatex 
> ...
> # grep ^Err /Net/gentoo/tmpdir/portage/app-text/dblatex-0.3.11-r1/temp/build.log 
> Error: not found: latex, makeindex, pdflatex, kpsewhich
> # which latex
> /usr/local/texlive/2022/bin/x86_64-linux/latex
> #
>
> Something seems to set its own PATH.
>
> Regards,
> /Karl Hammar
>
>
>

From man emerge:

ENVIRONMENT OPTIONS

ROOT = [path]
Use ROOT to specify the target root filesystem to be used for merging
the requested packages or ebuilds and their runtime dependencies. This
variable can be set via the --root option or in make.conf(5) (the
command line overrides other settings).
Defaults to /.

--root=DIR
Set the ROOT environment variable.

That variable is either set in make.conf or on the emerge command line
as a option.  Of course, this depends on what it is you are trying to
accomplish.  More info on that may help others to know what settings
need to be adjusted. 

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)