Re: AucTeX problems on Mac OSX

[David Kastrup]

"D. D. Brierton" <darren@dzr-web.com> writes:

> On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 22:32:50 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> >> Running `LaTeX Interactive' on `Thesis' with ``latex Thesis.tex''
> >> 
> >> LaTeX Interactive exited abnormally with code 127 at Thu Jul  3
> >> 21:57:12
> > 
> > Sounds like `latex' is not in your PATH.
> 
> Sorry - I missed out a crucial piece of information (my fault). If I open
> a terminal and cd to the directory containing Thesis.tex, and then run
> 
> latex Thesis.tex
> 
> in the terminal it runs fine and without error.
> 
> What is error code 127 - is it a (la)tex error code or an AucTex one?

An OS error.  If the above is the complete log, LaTeX does not even
get started.  What happens if you type
M-x shell RET
latex RET
from within Emacs?  What do you get if you type
M-! latex RET
from within Emacs?

Note that the shell used for TeX commands is configured in the
variable TeX-shell and defaults to /bin/sh.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum