Thank you Eric and Erik for the incredibly quick troubleshooting. I updated
.emacs with the setenv command suggested by Eric, restarted emacs and
everything now works as expected.

Bryan

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>wrote:

> back when I had to use a mac, I would just symlink paths into standard
> locations, e.g.
>
>  ln -s /opt/local/bin/dot /usr/bin/dot
>
> Maybe not the most elegant solution, but it works reliably
>
> To do this the *right* way you can update the PATH environment variable
> *within* Emacs by doing something like the following
>
> (setenv "PATH" (concat "/opt/local/bin/:" (getenv "PATH")))
>
> Cheers -- Eric
>