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Workaround for kpathsea problem with carbon Emacs on OS X
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William McCallum |
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Workaround for kpathsea problem with carbon Emacs on OS X |
Date: |
Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:37:18 -0800 |
For a long time I have been having a problem that when I invoke tex
related programs from within carbon emacs (such as latex or xdvi, using
auctex) they fail to find certain files. This seems always a result of
a failure in kpathsea, the file-searching program used by my
implementation of TeX. I do not have the same problem when I use Emacs
under X, called from the command line. So it seems that carbon emacs
fails to pass on some key environment variable to kpathsea (I was never
able to figure out which ... I did try putting various different
settings in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist).
I just discovered that if I call carbon Emacs from the command line
(i.e., type in /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs at the
command prompt), rather than starting the application in the usual way,
then the problems go away in carbon emacs as well. I am happy to have
discovered this work-around, but it would be nice to have a way of
having the application itself properly inherit all the environment
variables of the user who opens it.
I am using emacs 21.3.50, from cvs a couple of weeks ago.
Regards,
Bill McCallum
(520) 621 6697
http://www.math.arizona.edu/~wmc
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