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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to Set Environment Variables in Ebuilds
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 14:03:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ0EP42g0MYgw8TxpCUAKgV_MfNAzDM=uQusXcjxfr4g13QUGA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA-4+jdp3f68NwYrZkoOs7ZVT=unrG=tYZMLZhqS3hzNc6-_tw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Masanori Ogino
<masanori.ogino@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I wrote an ebuild and it executes a small Python script bundled in the
> source. The Python script requires a environment variable to be set.
>
> I tried something like:
>
>     NAME=value ${ECONF_SOURCE:-.}/script_file.py
>
> and
>
>     export NAME=value
>     ${ECONF_SOURCE:-.}/script_file.py
>
> but the both fail to pass the parameter via the environment variable to the
> script.
>
> How can I do it? Please point it out if I overlooked something.
>

Either of the method you listed about should work.

Are you sure the script is looking for an environment variable?


  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-14 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-14  3:27 [gentoo-user] How to Set Environment Variables in Ebuilds Masanori Ogino
2014-01-14 19:03 ` Mike Gilbert [this message]
2014-01-14 21:36   ` Masanori Ogino

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