Setting Environment Variables

I already searched past threads, but it is not very clear to me as I'm fairly new to Mac OS.

I've read several things from editing launchd.conf, which I was never able to find, to copy bashrc to my home and edit it to make the variables permanent. Nothing seems to work so far. So I was hoping some good samaritan would help me through setting these variables so I can get to work...

export ANT_HOME=/Applications/apache-ant-1.7.1/
export CATALINA_HOME=/Applications/apache-tomcat-5.5.25/
export SMARTFOX_HOME=/Applications/smartfox/
export FLEX_HOME=/Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3/sdks/3.0.0

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

sure, you can do the following.... (in terminal)

echo "
export ANT_HOME=/Applications/apache-ant-1.7.1/
export CATALINA_HOME=/Applications/apache-tomcat-5.5.25/
export SMARTFOX_HOME=/Applications/smartfox/
export FLEX_HOME=/Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3/sdks/3.0.0" >> .profile

then do a . ./.profile

that will set those variables whenever you log in.

Thanks a lot for the quick reply. It's telling me that...

3/sdks/3.0.0 is not a valid identifier

... and I know the path is right. Any idea why this could be happening?

Does it tell you that when you do the initial echo or when you log in? (run the profile)

After the . ./.profile

Does it give you the same error when you issue the command manually? If not tail .profile and check the syntax

Yeah, even manually. The syntax seems to be right too.

It's the spaces.

Try export FLEX_HOME='/Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3/sdks/3.0.0'

use the single quotes. You can simply vi or nano the .profile and swap the line.

Thank you so much, Dysfunction. It's working great.

No problem, glad it's worked and sorry I missed the spaces the first time