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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to Set Environment Variables in Ebuilds
From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
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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?