Hi, > The trouble is, often you need to know where to look,
The collective brain here always has interesting proposals. :)) > A shell script exactly like that was what what I started out with! > It worked ONLY for that terminal. You'd need to put start of the whole android development into that script. So that all processes started for that purpose inherit the variable. > I never thought to try 'man bash'. It can be frustrating to search for answers in there. Often you find the explanation why it works only after inventing a way how it works. In this case, bash is only involved as a common ancestor of all your user's activity. When new processes get started, they normally are subject to these statements from man 2 fork, when the parent process duplicates itself: The new process, referred to as the child, is an exact duplicate of the calling process, referred to as the parent, except for the following points: [... none of them applies to environment variables ...] and man 3 execl, when the child process replaces the parent program by the program which shall get started: For those forms not containing an envp pointer ( execl(), execv(), exe‐ clp(), and execvp()), the environment for the new process image shall be taken from the external variable environ in the calling process. Other ancestor programs (like systemd or the desktop) may of course decide not to forward all their environment but construct a new set of variables for those processes which they launch. Have a nice day :) Thomas
