From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 12 17:25:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from picusnet.com (mail.picusnet.com [207.7.90.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11BD337BD54 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 17:25:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wdf@picusnet.com) Received: from picusnet.com [209.96.235.177] by picusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id A0D72D05006E; Fri, 12 May 2000 20:24:55 -0400 Message-ID: <391CA0DF.E9EB421F@picusnet.com> Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 20:25:03 -0400 From: William Freeman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sarah Wright Cc: "'FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Environment Variables References: <492877AEF57BD311A02F00508B8E10E4303348@SF-BUSH1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sarah Wright wrote: > Where can I find a really comprehensive list of environment variables and > what they do? I've looked around and all the lists I've come across only > detail 20-25. But, I'm told there are "thousands"... > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message the only descrpitions you're going to find in one place are built into the shell. there are many othets like CVSROOT that you put stuff like :pserver:anonymous@cvs.enlightenment.org:/cvs/enlightenmnet or what ever you want to get so you can just use "cvs login". this is used by CVS. similarly, GTK_CONFIG, GLIB_CONFIG, and IMLIB_CONFIG are used alot to direct autoconf to the location of the gtk12-config, etc files, especialy for GNOME apps. -- William D. Freeman (wfreeman@picusnet.com) http://memebers.xoom.com/EvilGNU -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GG d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB+++ P+ L- E--- W++ N-- o-- K- w--- O---- M-- V-- PS--- PE+++ Y- PGP---- t+++ 5-- X+++ R* tv++ b+ DI++++ D---- G- e-- h! r++ !y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message