Setting PATH as used by applications in OS X

Question

I've been using Apache Ant to build a project with the 'svnversion' executable to insert a version id into my sources for easy tracking of versions.

I can run this ant file from the CLI and I've set my $PATH in .profile to the path of the svnversion.
Now, when I run the same ant file from inside Eclipse, it does not work. Maybe, the PATH in eclipse is set in a different way than the PATH of shell. So, I can guess this has to be set in a plist somewhere, but I just don't know where. Please help! TIA!

Answer 1

That's correct; it's in the plist file

~/.MacOSX/environment.plist

It contains key-value pairs for any environment variables that might you want to set for the whole login session. Unlike .profile or.cshrc, this file is available to GUI programs. However, you can't use any other programmatic constructs or access other environment variables here, like say, you can't use $HOME. Also, it's no longer supported under OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.