Setting environment variables via launchd.conf no longer works in OS X Yosemite/El Capitan/macOS Sierra/Mojave?

Question

It looks like the launchd.conf does not load my environment variable anymore. Has anyone else noticed that?

Is there another solution to permanently set

Answer 1

I added the variables in the ~/.bash_profile in the following way. After you are done restart/log out and log in

export M2_HOME=/Users/robin/softwares/apache-maven-3.2.3
export ANT_HOME=/Users/robin/softwares/apache-ant-1.9.4
launchctl setenv M2_HOME $M2_HOME
launchctl setenv ANT_HOME $ANT_HOME
export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Users/robin/softwares/apache-maven-3.2.3/bin:/Users/robin/softwares/apache-ant-1.9.4/bin
launchctl setenv PATH $PATH

NOTE: without restart/log out and log in you can apply these changes using;

source ~/.bash_profile