On 01/04/2018 09:44 PM, Iru Cai via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to build gimp-git which launches gdbus-codegen while building. > However, my $PATH is > /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:..., and > running gdbus-codegen will give the following error: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/bin/gdbus-codegen", line 41, in <module> > from codegen import codegen_main > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'codegen' > > After some searching from the packages I've installed, I found > "/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb" in /usr/bin/xdm. I think it's xorg-xdm > that changes $PATH. > > I suggest just using "PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin" in > /etc/profile instead of using appendpath. We changed this with deliberation and forethought, for well-thought-out reasons that will not be reverted. See https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47884 This is manifestly a bug in xdm, which is setting a stupid $PATH. Why on earth would we use workarounds in /etc/profile rather than fixing something which is obviously broken? -- Eli Schwartz
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