environment variables setting problem in MAC OSX

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15 Jan 2013 09:22 AM
I have installed idl8.2 on my MAC OSX 10.8. I am now using an IDL routine package, which needs to set some environment variables. I set these environment variables in .bash_profile, e.g. dir=/home/user/some_idl_package caseLIB=$dir/lib caseEXE=$dir/examples caseDATA=$dir/data export IDL_PATH=+$dir:$IDL_PATH export PATH IDL_PATH caseLIB caseEXE caseDATA After source .bash_profile, idl woks well in terminal model. But when I used idlde, these environment variables can not be found. For example, when one routine calls GETENV('caseLIB'), the output of idlde is null. How to figure out this problem? Thanks!

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15 Jan 2013 11:49 AM
Hi there, Try adding those configuration lines into .bashrc instead. Will that help? Cheers, Fernando ExelisVIS

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15 Jan 2013 07:36 PM
Thank you for your reply. But it does not work by adding these into .bashrc. Best

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27 Feb 2013 11:26 AM
What I do is I make an Applescript (using the AppleScript editor in the /Applications/Utilities folder) with the one line: do shell script "source ~/.bash_profile ; nohup open -a idlde.darwin.x86_64.app" Save as an application, and then you can double-click on that instead of the /Applications/exelis/IDLDE icon

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