[OS X TeX] Re: [texhax] Wrong latex getting used.

[Rolf Turner]

On 4/03/2009, at 2:53 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

	<snip>

>> On 3/03/2009, at 3:25 PM, Axel E. Retif wrote:

	<snip>

>>> If that doesn't work. You can do three things: 1) reinstall  
>>> MacTeX so
>>> it again takes control of your distributions; 2) tell Fink to
>>> uninstall teTeX (but that would be a problem if you have Fink's
>>> packages that depend on it); or 3) comment out momentarily the Fink
>>> line ( . /sw/bin/init.sh in .bashrc, and something similar
>>> in .cshrc),
>>
>> Nya-ha!  That's where the refusal to set my path to what I want is
>> coming from.  I should've noticed that; it was right before my eyes.
>> Bit of a ``duhhhh'' on my part.
>>
>>> logout ---or restart your computer--- and see if your system now
>>> recognizes TeXLive as your valid distribution.
>>
>> I commented out the ``source /sw/bin/init.sh" line in my .cshrc file
>> sourced .cshrc, and then did  ``latex junk''.  Bingo!  It ran; no
>> error thrown.  (And of course my path was as I had specified it.)

	<snip>

> Of course that means that you won't be able to execute anything else
> you have installed by fink. You can also prepend /usr/texbin to your
> path AFTER the sourcing of /sw/bin/init.sh in your .cshrc and you'll
> have both setting working.

I had (previously) explicitly set up my path to include /sw/bin and
/sw/sbin *after* /usr/texbin, so the commenting out strategy just
kept /sw/bin/cshrc from putting these directories back before /usr/ 
texbin.
I've since adjusted the code in my .cshrc to do the whole thing a
little more sexily:

	source /sw/bin/init.csh
	set npath = `echo $path | sed -e 's/\/usr\/texbin //'`
	set path = ( /usr/texbin $npath )

Even that worried me a little bit, but Richard Koch has re-assured me
that there should be no pit-falls from this strategy.

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

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