Re: [O] pdflatex not found?

[Rainer M Krug]

Fatma Başak Aydemir <address@hidden> writes:

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

In from Yosemite onwards, programs started from the finder / spotlight /
gui (however you call this) do *not* inherit from the .bashrc
anymore. This caused many problems. Furthermore, there seems to be a
change from emacs 24.5 to emacs 25 in this regard (this is why I had to
add

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
  (exec-path-from-shell-copy-env "LC_ALL")
  (exec-path-from-shell-copy-env "LANG")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

to my emacs.org to get the LANG in R correct.

Unfortunately I can't find the thread on the internet anymore about
these problems.


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

This is a lovely little package and very useful.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> 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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