From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pdflatex not found?
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 13:14:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87si4w5j4w.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2k2q8cla0.fsf@krugs.de
Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
> Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>>
>>> Fatma Başak Aydemir <aydemirfb@gmail.com> 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.
>>
>> I can understand not inheriting from .bashrc: shells should only use
>> that for interactive initializations (aliases and such).
>
> Right.
>
>>
>> $HOME/.profile however is another matter: it is read by a login shell
>> (in a non-graphical or console environment) and so its settings are
>> inherited by everybody started from that login shell: that's where env
>> variables are supposed to be defined and exported. Desktop environments
>> have to go to some lengths to read it and initialize things but as I
>> mentioned in my previous message, they *do* do that (on Linux - although
>> the mechanism varies by distro, hence the "mess" comment).
>>
>> If OS X does not use $HOME/.profile to initialize the environment of programs
>> (even in the graphical enviroment), that seems to me to be a serious
>> bug.
>
> Aparently it is not.
>
They do things differently at Apple:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135688/setting-environment-variables-in-os-x
has some answers: imo, the launchd.conf method should be avoided (it
applies to every user), but the environment.plist method (whatever that
is) seems to be the right solution - and although it did not work for
Spotlight-launched applications (whatever Spotlight is) in 10.5, it
apparently works in 10.6 or later.
As you can imagine, all my knowledge comes from that article and
references therein: take it with the appropriate grain of salt.
Anyway, this is very far from org-mode, so maybe it should be pursued in
a different forum.
--
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-27 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-27 13:43 pdflatex not found? Peter Davis
2015-10-27 13:55 ` Fatma Başak Aydemir
2015-10-27 15:37 ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 15:48 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 15:51 ` John Kitchin
2015-10-27 15:58 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 16:06 ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-10-28 12:40 ` Alan Schmitt
2015-10-27 15:44 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 16:19 ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 16:45 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 17:02 ` Peter Davis
2015-10-27 17:50 ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 17:59 ` Peter Davis
2015-10-27 18:30 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 17:14 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2015-10-27 15:40 ` Rainer M Krug
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-10-27 16:12 Peter Davis
2015-10-27 16:40 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-26 22:18 Peter Davis
2015-10-27 0:14 ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 5:45 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 16:07 ` Charles C. Berry
2015-10-26 19:26 Peter Davis
2015-10-26 19:50 ` John Hendy
2015-10-26 20:29 ` Myles English
2015-10-26 21:43 ` Charles C. Berry
2015-10-26 20:03 ` Nick Dokos
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