Hello, Brice Waegeneire <br...@waegenei.re> skribis:
> On 2020-02-08 19:10, Jonathan Frederickson wrote: >> I'm still not quite sure I have a good understanding of when >> 'native-search-paths' applies and when it doesn't, but... at least >> setting the env var directly seems to work in this case. > > I just learned about native-search-paths when looking into your issue > so I may be off about how it works... > What I understand is that native-search-paths add an entry to your > /etc/profile when installed - for your default user profile it's > $HOME/.guix-profile/etc/profile. In our case, when installed, minetest > sets the environment variable MINETEST_SUBGAME_PATH so the binary know > where to looks for the games. But when called directly, as it's the > case in a shepherd service, the /etc/profile file isn't sourced so the > environment variable isn't set. That's why we need to set it manually > in the service. Search paths are only used when building a profile, which is not the case here. I suppose you’d have to explicitly pass #:environment-variables to ‘make-forkexec-constructor’ to get the desired effect. HTH, Ludo’.
