(un)setting environment variables from a Portfile

Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org
Sun Jan 11 18:27:50 PST 2015


On Jan 11, 2015, at 2:46 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 2:43 PM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> My specific case (turned out to be moot) was that having QTDIR set in the environment might undo MacPorts' sandboxing attempts
> 
> MacPorts nukes most user environment variables, doesn't it, precisely for that reason?

Yes. The variables left after environment sanitization are listed in macports.conf, in the comment for the `extra_env` setting.

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