Build cmd has no environment (OSX)

I believe that this is correct for the way OS X works: .profile is parsed by the shell, and neither Sublime Text X nor the spawned process is a child of any shell process, so I would not expect .profile to be parsed at any point. Let me know if my understanding is incorrect.

I've tried to run it via Finder, Dock and iTerm/Terminal. The Finder and Dock seem to be started without sourcing .profile, therefore nearly no env vars. When run from a terminal it gets all variables as I wished.
Do you think that it's awkward to implement an optionally definable shell command (e.g. "bash --login") to use as a wrapper for all shell calls from the config files? This way one could choose (by configuration) to either run them isolated or from a specific point of view (e.g. virtualenv or a custom wrapper which loads a proper virtualenv or shell env according to path etc. - at least that's what I would want to brew for myself...).

Python's subprocess module, which is used to implement the exec command, and hence the build systems, supports a parameter shell=True (False by default), that may well do what you want.

If you're feeling keen, can you try editing Packages/Default/exec.py, line 25, add the shell=True parameter, and see if that works for you?

If so, I can easily add 'shell' as a parameter in .sublime-bulid files

It's a little bit better but it doesn't source the .profile 'cause bash isn't called as a login shell.

An optional parameter shell=False|True would be good anyway for people who know what they do.

I've now added these lines before line 19 as an example:

        arg_list_prefix = ['bash', '-l', '-c']
        if arg_list_prefix:
            from pipes import quote
            arg_list = map(quote, arg_list)
            arg_list = arg_list_prefix + [' '.join(arg_list)]

I would really like to define this arg_list_prefix in my configuration file.

I also replaced the first line of my code above with these:

        settings = sublime.load_settings("Global.sublime-settings")
        arg_list_prefix = settings.get("arg_list_prefix", [])

i agree with theblacklion, it would be good to wrap build script calls with bash --login. Otherwise on MacOS X you are stuck with whatever environment is inherited from the parent process (launchd), which is configured by nonstandard files (/etc/launchd.conf, ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist)

How about a more general mechanism than just calling "bash --login"?

What I really need are per-project environment settings. These could be simply defined in the project file for now and via a GUI at some future date.

When using popen, these could be pushed into the "env" argument.

You could, of course, also have an option in the build definition: "execution_shell" = True or somesuch.

Please take a look at this: http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1699
It covers bash and virtualenv but could be easily adopted to other languages as well.
I really hope that Jon brings something like my arg list wrapper into the core...
Also +1 for "project specific setting/env overwrites".

Build systems don't even have the environment defined in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist — I have PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin there, but build systems run with PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin and make doesn't find my gettext tools in /usr/local/bin.

OSX 10.6.8, ST2 build 2139

I'm having the same problem. OS X 10.7.2, ST2 build 2156.

Has there been a resolution on this issue?  This had been a problem for https://github.com/uipoet/sublime-jshint/issues/21, and we had to scope the PATH option just for Mac for the plugin to work.