[OS X Emacs] Aquamacs: Latex does not work

[David Reitter]

Hi Thomas,

On 27 Feb 2009, at 15:09, Thomas Käufl wrote:
>
> My BASHRC
> g5:... kaeufl$ echo $PATH
> /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/ 
> usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/ 
> texlive/2008/bin:/usr/local/texlive/2008/bin
>
> The pathes to the Tex binaries are wrong -- and why do they
> appear twice?
>
>
> g5:... kaeufl$ tcsh
> My TCSHRC
> [g5:~/Documents/latex/mathdesign] kaeufl% echo $PATH
> /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/ 
> usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/ 
> texlive/2008/bin:/usr/local/texlive/2008/bin
>
> The same as in the bash. To be complete: When checking the
> values of PATH in the Terminal application, the correct pathes
> to the Tex binaries appear.

Aquamacs sets a few additional paths (to TeXLive) in case the user  
hasn't set them.  This is why you see additional paths.

However, they should be additional; other paths are imported from your  
default login shell.
This import works well for bash, and is designed to work with tcsh as  
well.

What is the value of your `shell-file-name'?
What is the value of $PATH when you start Terminal.app (without  
starting another shell)?
The default login shell is essential here.  The $PATH needs to be  
correct there.

You can find out what the login shell is by typing "login" (plus u/n  
and password), then "echo $SHELL".


If there is a bug in Aquamacs, let's fix it!

- David

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