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Buildbot slave environment path

I wanted to know where buildbot is retrieving the PATH environment from?

My problem is the following: I am compiling on MACOSX with zsh. My master.cfg is well configured to use zsh since in the stdio I get : SHELL=/bin/zsh

But my path is not the path configured in .zsh.

For now I hotfixed that by adding env={"PATH"=["PathIWant"]} but I find it a bit hacky and does not really like that solution. I would prefer the buildbot slave to get the right path from the environment.

Solution

  • Since you mention master.cfg, keep in mind that the commands execute on the slave, not the master -- so the PATH on the master doesn't matter.

    The environment on the slave is simply the environment in which the slave was started. For example, export PATH=/path/i/want:$PATH buildslave start /path/to/slave would put /path/i/want in PATH for any commands executed by that slave instance.