Re: [O] pdflatex not found?

[Nick Dokos]

Fatma Başak Aydemir <address@hidden> writes:

> 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
>

Just the need for a package like that indicates that something is badly
broken on OS X, I think. To be fair, it's a mess on Linux as well, but
it is possible to make sure that variables you define (and export) in
your .profile get propagated to applications started by the DE/WM. In my
current installation (Fedora 21), that is done by
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common, which does this:

[ -r $HOME/.profile ] && . $HOME/.profile

Maybe OS X has a "hidden" mechanism like this?

> 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?
>>

FWIW, I never define exec-path explicitly: it is set from my $PATH when
emacs starts.

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Nick