[OS X TeX] files in ~/Library/texmf

[Alan Munn]

At 4:19 PM -0500 12/18/07, Alan Munn wrote:
>At 3:10 PM -0600 12/18/07, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>>On Dec 18, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Alan Munn wrote:
>>
>>>At 2:16 PM -0600 12/18/07, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>>>>On Dec 18, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Alan Munn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>...
>>>>>why does bibtex called within TeXShop find my bib file, but 
>>>>>bibtex called from the command line doesn't?
>>>>>
>>>>>Alan
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Howdy,
>>>>
>>>>What does the [following] command return:
>>>>
>>>>kpsepath -n bibtex bib
>>>
>>>/Users/alan/Library/texmf/bibtex/
>>>
>>>Which is different on my other machine, which bibtex works fine 
>>>from the command line.
>>>
>>>So how do I change this, and how did it get like this in the first place?
>>>
>>>Alan
>>>
>>
>>Are you sure you're using MacTeX on that computer? Do you have a 
>>TeX Distribution system preference pane? If so, is it set to be 
>>using the MacTeX distribution?
>
>Yes and yes.
>
>>
>>I assume you're only giving a relevant part of the output of that 
>>command. That is typical of the earlier teTeX distribution.
>
>No, that's all it shows.  Even though the following command returns 
>something that looks more normal.
>
>% kpsepath -n pdflatex tex
>.:/Users/alan/.texlive2007/texmf-config/tex/latex//:/Users/alan/.texlive2007/texmf-var/tex/latex//:/Users/alan/Library/texmf/tex/latex//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config/tex/latex//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/tex/latex//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/tex/latex//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/latex//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex//:/Users/alan/.texlive2007/texmf-config/tex/generic//:/Users/alan/.texlive2007/texmf-var/tex/generic//:/Users/alan/Library/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config/tex/generic//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/tex/generic//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/generic//:!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic//:/Users/alan/.texlive2007/texmf-config/tex///:/Users/alan/.texlive2007/texmf-var/tex///:/Users/alan/Library/texmf/tex///:!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config/tex///:!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/tex///:!!
  
>/
> 
>usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/tex///:!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex///:!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex///


Which got me thinking.  It turns out that my .cshrc set BIBINPUTS to 
/Users/alan/Library/texmf/bibtex/

This was from before the switch to TeXLive, which is stricter about 
TDS compliance.  I think I put this into my .cshrc at one point 
because I was using bibtool and it required it.

Taking out that line from my .cshrc solves the problem. (Although 
doesn't explain the TeXShop behaviour that was solve by restarting 
TeXShop).

Thanks

Alan

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