[OS X TeX] problem using /opt/local instead of /usr/local/

[Christopher Brewster]

I am using bash.
I tried logging out and back in as Pete suggested. To no avail.

What I have realised is that my $PATH has nothing to do with what is  
in my ~/.profile file:
christopher-brewsters-macbook-pro-15:~ kiffer$ echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/opt/local/ 
bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/local/git/bin/:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin

While my .profile file has the following:
---
PATH=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.3/bin:$PATH
export PATH
export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/:$PATH
export PATH=/usr/local/graphviz/bin:$PATH
GROOVY_HOME=/Users/kiffer/Library/groovy-1.5.6
export GROOVY_HOME
PYTHONPATH=/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/ 
lib/python2.5/site-packages
export PYTHONPATH

# Setting PATH for MacPython 2.5
# The orginal version is saved in .profile.pysave
PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:${PATH}"
export PATH
---

Where is my $PATH controlled from then?

Christopher






On 11 Sep 2008, at 13:13, Peter Dyballa wrote:


Am 11.09.2008 um 13:32 schrieb Christopher Brewster:

> Changes I make to ~/.profile appear to have no effect on where latex  
> is called.


Are you using a different shell than bash?

If bash is your login shell:

• did you launch TextMate anew after you changed ~/.profile?

• is the behaviour different when you log off and in again?


If bash is not your login shell, then you should make the change to  
~/.login. And also try to re-launch TextMate and log off and in again.  
Some applications do not re-read initialisation files when they  
change, some take their run time environment from Mac OS X which is  
established only once – at login time.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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


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