[OS X Emacs] latex + dvips + ps2pdf from Aquamacs

[Roussanka Loukanova]

Hi,

I tried the following, in the *scratch* buffer of Aquamacs, but they do not
produce anything visible by me in "scratch":

(getenv "PATH") ctrl-J
getenv "PATH" ctrl-J
getenv("PATH")ctrl-J

The "man getenv" gives the following syntax:
getenv(const char *name);

The problem continues from Aquamacs. But ps2pdf runs ok from Terminal.

Best Regards,
Roussanka

On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 7:16 PM Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at math.fsu.edu>
wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> thanks for the clarifications.
>
> > On Nov 1, 2020, at 12:44, John Wroclawski <jtw at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> On Nov 1, 2020, at 12:30 PM, Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at math.fsu.edu>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> what Pete says is correct. (It’s indeed great to see him back on the
> list.) However, if you install TeX Live via MacTex, the installer takes
> care of putting the appropriate item in /etc/paths.d, so that shouldn’t be
> the issue, as you say.
> >
> > Without speculating at all on what’s happening to Roussanka, it might be
> worth noting in passing that
> >
> > - ps2pdf is part of ghostscript, not TeXLive, and normally lives in
> /usr/local/bin. (so the TeXLive /etc/paths.d file isn’t relevant to this
> particular program..)
>
> Yes, you are right. Even better. The path is synthesized by calling
> /usr/libexec/path_helper, which takes care of putting /usr/local/bin in it
> before looking into /etc/paths.d.  This happens in both bash and zsh
> (through different startup files, of course).
>
> > - ps2pdf is also typically a chain of three or four shell scripts before
> it gets to actually running gs, and I suppose it could possibly have been
> broken by the switch to zsh (running 10.14 here, can’t check..)
>
> Eventually they all call ps2pdfwr, which calls gs. But due to the way bash
> and zsh construct the path, the result should be the same.  Bash would call
> path_helper in /etc/profile. Zsh does the same in /etc/zprofile.
>
> > - simpdftex, which Roussanka mentioned in other contexts, _is_ part of
> TeXLive and typically lives in /Library/TeX/texbin/. But it itself
> manipulates paths to find the programs it uses. So the fact that simpdftex
> can find ps2pdf doesn’t necessarily mean that other things will.
> >
> > (Is AQM using simpdftex, or calling programs directly?)
>
> No idea. I see that Aquamacs adds /Library/TeX/texbin to the path itself.
> I have TeXLive installed in /opt and therefore no /Library/TeX/texbin in my
> path, but it’s there in Aquamacs when I run (getenv “PATH”).
>
> —Ettore
>
>
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