OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Development Environment

[GRiker]

Apparently 10.8 changes the way environment variables are passed. ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist is no longer used. According to this post, environment variables are now specified in the app's info.plist file:

Change the Info.plist of the .app itself to contain an "LSEnvironment" dictionary with the environment variables you want.
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist is no longer supported.

It's not the app bundle, it's the calibre-debug executable in usr/bin that needs to be launched with the environment variable, but that's not an app bundle.

Ideas?

UPDATE:
I found this article indicating that it's possible to export an environment variable specified in /etc/launchd.conf.

That seems to resolve it. I am now properly running from source.

I'd appreciate it if someone else could confirm this solution, and then the docs should be updated to reflect this change for 10.8+.

G

[GRiker]

Another stumble - bzr explorer is not working after the update to 10.8. There's no environment variable PYTHON_PATH including the location of the bzrlib file.

UPDATE:
I reinstalled bzr explorer (version 2.5) and now it's working again.

G

[KevinH]

Hi,

Have you tried simply adding your environment variables to a .bash_profile file found in your home directory.

Mine says the following:

kbhend$ cat .bash_profile

# Setting PATH for Python 2.7
# The orginal version is saved in .bash_profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH

export CALIBRE_DEVELOP_FROM=/Users/kbhend/calibre_trunk/calibre/src


This should still work given the unix underpinnings of Mac OS X and the use of the bash shell.

Please let us know if this works for you or not as I am thinking of upgrading to ML but wanted to make sure my development environment still worked.

Thanks,

KevinH

Originally Posted by GRiker

Another stumble - bzr explorer is not working after the update to 10.8. There's no environment variable PYTHON_PATH including the location of the bzrlib file.

UPDATE:
I reinstalled bzr explorer (version 2.5) and now it's working again.

G

[kovidgoyal]

I suggest you create a simple bash script to launch calibre, that way you wont have trouble when/if Apple decides that setting environment variables is not something their users should be allowed to do.

#!/bin/sh
export CALIBRE_DEVELOP_FROM=whatever
calibre-debug -g

Save this file as /usr/bin/calibre-develop and run
chmod +x /usr/bin/calibre-develop

[GRiker]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I suggest you create a simple bash script to launch calibre, that way you wont have trouble when/if Apple decides that setting environment variables is not something their users should be allowed to do.

#!/bin/sh
export CALIBRE_DEVELOP_FROM=whatever
calibre-debug -g

Save this file as /usr/bin/calibre-develop and run
chmod +x /usr/bin/calibre-develop

A much better solution.