Re: [O] pdflatex not found?

[Fatma Başak Aydemir]

I do not know the reasons but I had the same problem in the past on OS X.

exec-path-from-shell package is a nice solution for that.

https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell

27/10/15 14:43 tarihinde Peter Davis yazdı:
> Rainer M Krug <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Envoyé de mon iPhone
> >
> > > Le 27 oct. 2015 à 01:14, Nick Dokos <address@hidden> a écrit :
> > >
> > > Peter Davis <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > > > Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:
> > > ...
> > > Yes, probably, but if I can get people to submit backtraces when getting
> > > an error, we can cut down the email volume by a factor of 2.43 (making up
> > > fictitious data to bolster my case...) In all seriousness, at least it
> > > shows that you are not going down some strange path.
> I think the actual number is more like 2.17, but let's not quibble.
>
> > > What happens if you say M-x shell-command RET pdflatex RET?
> Not found.
>
> > > Somebody suggested running "which pdflatex" in your shell - what does
> > > that say?
> Still not found. However, adding it to ~/.tcshrc seems to fix the problem. That 
> makes sense, but leaves two questions:
>
> 1) Why am I able to run pdflatex (without specifying the path) just from the 
> shell running in a terminal window?
>
> 2) What's the point of defining the emacs exec-path, since I needed to define 
> the shell's PATH variable anyway?
>
> > > And you say it should be in /usr/texbin - what happens if you invoke
> > > it with an absolute path: "/usr/texbin/pdflatex" in your shell?
> > Imiight have missed it - but which OS are you using?
> Sorry. It's OS X 10.10.5, using GNU Emacs 24.5.1
>
> Thanks!
> -pd

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Fatma Başak Aydemir
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Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science
University of Trento
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