[OS X TeX] Mountain Lion neither makefile nor latex command functions

NMPOST7 nmpost7 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 12 12:28:56 EST 2013


On 12/11/2013 18:05, Herbert Schulz wrote:
> Why did you install TeXLive directly rather than via MacTeX? MacTeX installs a full TeX Live 2013. 
It also sets up the proper symbolic links so the /usr/texbin actually works and
the proper $PATH. T
here is no need to configure anything (Unless you also have a MacPorts or Fink
distribution present)!
You can get the MacTeX installer from <http://www.tug.org/mactex/>.

Well, I used the DVD, which I get from DANTE and installed MacTeX. That is how I
have been doing until now.

> If you actually installed via the MacTeX installer please install the FixMacTeX2013.pkg which should fix up the problems with $PATH and /usr/texbin.

As mentioned in my last message. the $PATH problem has been fixed. the
compilation works well

> If you actually installed TeX Live directly, where is TeX Live installed? If it's in /usr/local/texlive/2013 try using
> 
> export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86_64-darwin:$PATH
> 
> since it's MacTeX that creates the /usr/texbin symbolic links so that you can switch distributions via the TeX Distribution Preference Pane in system Preferences (also installed by MacTeX.
> 
> As far as `make' is concerned, what does
> 
> which make
> 
> return. Also, please let me know what the commands in my original post returns!
> 


ls -alF /usr
total 24
drwxr-xr-x@  12 root  wheel    408 12 Nov 17:55 ./
drwxr-xr-x   37 root  wheel   1326 13 Oct 00:18 ../
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root  wheel      8 13 Oct 00:18 X11@ -> /opt/X11
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root  wheel      8 13 Oct 00:18 X11R6@ -> /opt/X11
drwxr-xr-x  977 root  wheel  33218 11 Oct 03:34 bin/
drwxr-xr-x  245 root  wheel   8330 11 Oct 03:34 lib/
drwxr-xr-x  144 root  wheel   4896 30 Oct 23:37 libexec/
drwxr-xr-x   10 root  wheel    340 11 Oct 03:34 local/
drwxr-xr-x  269 root  wheel   9146 11 Oct 03:34 sbin/
drwxr-xr-x   50 root  wheel   1700 11 Oct 03:34 share/
drwxr-xr-x    4 root  wheel    136 11 Oct 03:18 standalone/
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root  wheel     63 12 Nov 17:55 texbin@ ->
/Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Programs/texbin


:~ mysticmoon$ ls -alF /usr/local
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  10 root  wheel   340 11 Oct 03:34 ./
drwxr-xr-x@ 12 root  wheel   408 12 Nov 17:55 ../
drwxr-xr-x  11 root  wheel   374 11 Oct 03:34 MacGPG2/
drwxr-xr-x  42 root  wheel  1428 12 Nov 17:55 bin/
drwxr-xr-x   8 root  wheel   272 11 Oct 03:34 clamXav/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   102 11 Oct 03:34 etc/
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel   136 11 Oct 03:34 include/
drwxrwxr-x  18 root  wheel   612 11 Oct 03:34 lib/
drwxr-xr-x   5 root  wheel   170 11 Oct 03:34 share/
drwxr-xr-x   7 root  wheel   238 11 Oct 03:34 texlive/


:~ $ echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/texbin

:~ $ which latex
/usr/texbin/latex


Make: apparently during update this was removed (probably). I am installing
xcode now.

Best regards
suren


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