From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rainer M Krug Subject: Re: pdflatex not found? Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:45:59 +0100 Message-ID: References: <6sw6c7bnbke8ah.fsf@pfdstudio.com> <562F826B.1080802@gmail.com> <87wpu85lon.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45125) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr7Nu-0007fe-Jb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:46:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr7Nr-0004tF-C4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:46:06 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com ([209.85.212.182]:32872) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr7Nr-0004t7-5u for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:46:03 -0400 Received: by wijp11 with SMTP id p11so222843187wij.0 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:46:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87wpu85lon.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> (Nick Dokos's message of "Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:19:04 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Nick Dokos Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Nick Dokos writes: > Rainer M Krug writes: > >> Fatma Ba=C5=9Fak Aydemir 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 prog= rams > (even in the graphical enviroment), that seems to me to be a serious > bug.=20 Aparently it is not. Cheers, Rainer =2D-=20 Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,= UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: Rainer@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug PGP: 0x0F52F982 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWL6pIAAoJENvXNx4PUvmC0rEH/A7Y15JF/yHRfpKc+S1a228d LU8p56fLfAY6ASQiavk5KadOU3lT+2GZVnTtyyNsHnoRI3YtPRSlpBpEeX1eL2nD XuDqXdC720jBEJUlKKV9sW+jJlV6sO/99ShhPX3z/IxSvoxTFbXPn8HCb/vi3gbZ KsdsNa/DDDwN8YPnGGoE/bh0rLT9XLnai7rtTLh2apeHZ+XaMA4vcqvTYujc3Cx1 LSyz54EYXT1Pby0OaIK8FFCrdGVG8UPpUxvRXLt2rpFwbW4Bep4k6mDXvQjUBixd j/UO9K97WWyzPHgXipmruK5aCZ8Kbur88A451JOOBIsvZtJ/zL3gsQT0/4xOsrA= =d5ha -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--