[OS X TeX] Staying on the right PATH (or something)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 15.11.2007 um 09:29 schrieb Morten Høgholm:

> 	(call-process shell-file-name nil
> 	       t nil
> 	        shell-login-switch
> 		shell-command-switch
> 		"printenv"))

A login shell is launched that executes printenv. Then the list is  
searched for PATH, which is then stuffed into the own process  
environment – ahhem, actually not, some Emacs mechanisms never learn  
this late addition according to my experience with an account without  
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file. If you don't want to use ~/.MacOSX/ 
environment.plist you have to use such detours ... and success is not  
guaranteed.

And this approach misses some useful environment variables like  
MANPATH or INFOPATH or CFLAGS or ...

--
Greetings

   Pete

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something  
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete  
fools.