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The following environment variables can be set to override some default settings in GPS:
Override the default root directory specified when GPS
is built (during the configure process, see the file INSTALL
in
the GPS sources for more details) to access information such as the location
of the translation files.
Override the variable HOME if present. All the configuration files and directories used by GPS are either relative to $HOME/.gps (%HOME%\.gps under Windows) if GPS_HOME is not set, or to $GPS_HOME/.gps (respectively %GPS_HOME%\.gps) if set.
Set the search path for the documentation. See Adding New Help Files.
Contains a list of directories to search for custom files. See Customizing through XML and Python files for more details.
Contains the user and e-mail to use in the global ChangeLog files. Note that the common usage is to have two spaces between the name and the e-mail. Ex: "John Does <john.doe@home.com>"
Contains the value of the PATH
environment variable just before GPS
was started. This is used by GPS to restore the proper environment before
spawning applications, no matter what particular directories it needed to
set for its own purpose.
Same as GPS_STARTUP_LD_LIBRARY_PATH
but for the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
variable.
If set, GPS will add special code on every allocation and deallocation,
thus slowing things down a bit, that makes it possible to check where the
biggest amount of memory is allocated, through the
GPS.debug_memory_usage
python command.
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