Exec path is set incorrectly

[orausch]

I'm having an issue with the exec-path.

https://github.com/necaris/conda.el/blob/master/conda.el#L184
This function seems to return "" on my system. This results in nil being added to the exec path, and this breaks subsequent conda-env-deactivate calls.

After some debugging, it seems like it fails because the command conda isn't found. I can resolve the issue locally by fully specifying the path of the conda command (i.e. i replace the substring conda with the path of the conda executable)

Any idea why this is happening?

[necaris]

@orausch can you tell me a bit more about your system? OS, Emacs version, etc?

[orausch]

Sure; my OS is debian testing, my emacs version is 26.1. Conda is installed in a non-standard location: ~/.local/opt/miniconda3, and my conda version is 4.8.2

[necaris]

Thank you! I'm unfortunately not likely to get back to this very soon, but I'm hoping to have a look this weekend.

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[seblemaguer]

Hello,

I faced the same problem which seems to be due to the shell activation of conda which is supposed to set some variables. On my side, I replaced conda--get-path-prefix with the following implementation:

(defun conda--get-path-prefix (env-dir)
  "Get a platform-specific path string to utilize the conda env in ENV-DIR.
It's platform specific in that it uses the platform's native path separator."
  (s-trim
   (with-output-to-string
     (with-current-buffer standard-output
       (process-file shell-file-name nil '(t nil) nil shell-command-switch
                     (format "%s/bin/conda ..activate \"%s\" %s"
                             conda-anaconda-home
                             (if (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
                                 "cmd.exe"
                               "bash")
                             env-dir))))))

so it go take the full path of conda based on conda-aconaconda-home

[orausch]

@seblemaguer Yes, that seems like a reasonable solution IMO.