[OS X TeX] Cannot open Ghostscript for piped input! (and PATH)

[Herb Schulz]

On 12/3/04 3:52 AM, "Lawrence Paulson" <lp15 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> That was it: my PATH did not include /usr/local/bin. Thanks!
> 
> That opens another TeX-related mystery: my ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
> defines my PATH by
> 
> <key>PATH</key>
> <string>/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/Users/lcp/isabelle/Repos/
> Distribution/bin</string>
> 
> and my .bashrc augments it using
> 
> PATH=$HOME/bin:/Users/lcp/isabelle/Repos/Distribution/bin:/usr/local/
> bin/:$PATH
> 
> and (for Fink)
> 
> . /sw/bin/init.sh
> 
> but the resulting PATH is
> 
> /sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/Users/lcp/bin:/Users/lcp/isabelle/Repos/Distribution/
> bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-
> darwin-current:/usr/X11R6/bin
> 
> In particular, I have no idea how
> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current ended up on my path.
> I even tried
> 
> grep powerpc-apple-darwin-current -r .
> 
> from my home directory but found nothing plausible.
> 
> Anybody have any idea?
> 
> Larry Paulson
> 
> "Peter Dyballa" <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE> wrote:
> 
>> What returns the shell in Terminal (or Emacs) when you type 'which gs'?
>> If the answer is like 'gs: Command not found' you have no gs installed
>> or the shell does know where to look for the programme (search path not
>> correctly initiated).
> 

Howdy,

Since you're using bash take a look in /etc/profile which is executed before
your personal configuration.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)

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