palantir / palantir/go-java-launcher

System environment variables not appended to with user defined value

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Description

I have a stack where LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set in the user environment, and we want to append to it when launching our app. Our launcher-static.yml contains the following:

env:
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH: "{{CWD}}/service/staf/linux-x86_64/lib"

The system environment has this defined:

$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/opt/palantir/postgresql95/usr/pgsql-9.5/lib:/opt/palantir/postgresql95/usr/lib64:/opt/palantir/postgresql95/usr/lib64/atlas:/opt/palantir/postgresql95/lib64:

And on startup we get the following:

2017-01-12 14:48:59,004 INFO [main] EnterpriseManager - LD_LIBRARY_PATH = /opt/palantir/postgresql95/usr/pgsql-9.5/lib:/opt/palantir/postgresql95/usr/lib64:/opt/palantir/postgresql95/usr/lib64/atlas:/opt/palantir/postgresql95/lib64:

Ideally the launcher-static environment variable would actually get appended to they system environment variable.

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Start by inspecting how environment variables from launcher-static.yml are loaded and passed to the launched Java process. Reproduce the LD_LIBRARY_PATH case from the issue, then verify that the configured value is appended to the existing system value without dropping either portion.

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Tech stack
go
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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Stale
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Mostly clear
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