Re: [auctex] pdflatex: command not found

Aloha Leo,

Thank you. I appreciate the pointer to the emacs documentation and your solution to the problem.

All the best,
Tom

On 2009-12-06 00:06:45 -1000, Leo <sdl.web@xxxxxxxxx> said:

Tom Dye <tsd@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Aloha all,

I'm setting up Emacs 23 on my OS X 10.5 MacBook and have run into an
old problem:

Running `LaTeX' on `tsd_135_drr' with ``pdflatex -synctex=1
-interaction=nonstopmode "\input" tsd_135_drr.tex''
/bin/sh: pdflatex: command not found

This is one I've solved before with other emacsen, so I went through
the old steps:
1) make sure exec-path has the path to pdflatex:

("/usr/bin" "/bin" "/usr/sbin" "/sbin"
"/Applications/Emacs23.app/Contents/MacOS/bin" "/usr/texbin")

2) copy the failed command from the output window and see if it runs
in the shell (pre-pending the path to pdflatex in exec-path)

This is a known problem. See: (info "(emacs)Mac OS / GNUstep").

So what you need to do is to create
/Users/someusername/.MacOSX/environment.plist with the following in
it:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>PATH</key>
<string>/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/texlive/2009basic/bin/universal-darwin</string>
</dict>
</plist>
--8<---------------cut

here---------------end--------------->8---

Restart Emacs.app 23 and it will get the env PATH from that file.

Leo


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Tom Dye
T. S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, Inc.
Honolulu, Hawai`i

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