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At the very top of the main ikiwiki executable script the `PATH` environment is set like this:
$ENV{PATH}="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/local/bin";
This makes it a little hard to specify which specific binaries should be used, especially if there is more than one of them available (see c.f. <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/26333> where the MacPorts-supplied, up-to-date subversion should be used and not an arcane one from the base distro / OS). Is there a specific reason why ikiwiki wipes out `$PATH` like this or could that line be improved to
$ENV{PATH}="$ENV{PATH}:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/local/bin";
? The alternative is of course to patch ikiwiki as suggested in the bug, but I wanted to ask here first :)
> You can use the ENV setting in your setup file to set any environment
> variables you like. Since ikiwiki.cgi is run by the web browser, that
> is the best way to ensure ikiwiki always runs with a given variable set.
>
> As a suid program, the ikiwiki wrappers have to sanitize the environment.
> The ikiwiki script's own sanitization of PATH was done to make perl taint
> checking happy, but as taint checking is disabled anyway, I have removed
> that. [[done]] --[[Joey]]
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