[Bug 16246] Setting WINEPATH has no effect.

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Fri Nov 28 15:41:37 CST 2008


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16246





--- Comment #4 from Jeff Zaroyko <jeffz at jeffz.name>  2008-11-28 15:41:35 ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > WINEPATH is not used anywhere within Wine. Where did you found that Wine uses
> > WINEPATH.
> > 
> > If you want to alter PATH withing Wine you will have to do it the same way as
> > windows - via registry.
> > 
> > Closing invalid
> > 
> 
> Yes it is, at least it was in older versions of wine. For example, see
> http://source.winehq.org/search?v=wine20040309;string=WINEPATH

That was not a stable release.

> I don't appreciate it at all that this bug has been marked invalid almost
> instantly. I would like to have a discussion, because I think this is a
> necessary feature. The alternative way to set PATH using regedit is not
> acceptable in all situations. Especially not when you have to run Windows
> programs from bash or python scripts and don't want to alter the PATH variable
> permanently.

If you don't want to set it globally then instead of launching whatever program
you are running under Wine directly, modify the PATH environment variable as
part of a batch file which then runs your program.


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