[OS X TeX] Install fail

[John Burt]

I forgot to mention that csh.login and profile are in \etc

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 10:45 AM, John Burt <burt at brandeis.edu> wrote:

> Ettore, Herb, thank you so much for all your help with this mystery.
>
> Here are some answers to your questions
>
> 1. I don't have .tcshrc in my home directory.
> 2. I do have csh.login, and this is its content:
> # System-wide .login file for csh(1).
>
> setenv PATH "/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
> ## TeX added /usr/texbin start at Thu Jan 21 10:53:41 EST 2010
> ## Do not remove the previous line
> if ("${uid}" != "0") then
>   set path = ( ${path} "/usr/texbin" )
> endif
> ## Do not remove the next line
> ## TeX added /usr/texbin end at Thu Jan 21 10:53:41 EST 2010
> ## setloginpath added /usr/local/bin start at Tue Sep  1 12:54:10 EDT 2015
> ## Do not remove the previous line
> if ("${uid}" != "0") then
>   set path = ( ${path} /usr/local/bin )
> endif
> ## Do not remove the next line
> ## setloginpath added /usr/local/bin end at Tue Sep  1 12:54:10 EDT 2015
>
>
> 3. I do have profile, and this is its content:
> # System-wide .profile for sh(1)
>
> PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
> export PATH
>
> if [ "${BASH-no}" != "no" ]; then
> [ -r /etc/bashrc ] && . /etc/bashrc
> fi
> ## TeX added /usr/texbin start at Thu Jan 21 10:53:41 EST 2010
> ## Do not remove the previous line
> if [ `whoami` != "root" ]
> then
>   PATH="$PATH:/usr/texbin"
>   export PATH
> fi
> ## Do not remove the next line
> ## TeX added /usr/texbin end at Thu Jan 21 10:53:41 EST 2010
> ## setloginpath added /usr/local/bin start at Tue Sep  1 12:54:10 EDT 2015
> ## Do not remove the previous line
> if [ `whoami` != "root" ]
> then
>   PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin"
>   export PATH
> fi
> ## Do not remove the next line
> ## setloginpath added /usr/local/bin end at Tue Sep  1 12:54:10 EDT 2015
>
>
> with much thanks!
> John
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:08 PM, Ettore Aldrovandi <
> ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Herb,
>>
>> John has answered that the file /etc/paths.d/TeX contains the line
>> /Library/TeX/texbin.
>>
>> So the question is why that file doesn’t get read. The files in
>> /etc/paths.d are read by /usr/libexec/path_helper, which is called by
>> /etc/csh.login (for csh) or /etc/profile (bash and ksh) or /etc/zshenv (for
>> zsh).
>>
>> Which files should have been edited? Those under /etc? That’s possible
>> but unlikely. There could be some other .file lingering somewhere that we
>> don’t know about. One possibility is .tcshrc.
>>
>> It’s possible tcsh does NOT read /etc/csh.login if it’s not a login
>> shell. In that case path_helper would not be called, and the environment
>> gets read from another dot file. In that case, I agree with you, it would
>> be better to switch to a more predictable shell. (I remember 10.1, which in
>> BSD semi-orthodoxy used tcsh, had a very baroque system of initialization
>> files. Hopefully we are not dealing with a leftover of that!)
>>
>> Hopefully we will know soon.
>>
>> —E
>>
>> > On Sep 2, 2015, at 21:47, Herb Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Howdy,
>> >
>> > The problem isn't Fink in this case. Even though the TeX file in
>> /etc/paths.d has /Library/TeX/texbin the $PATH or $path still have
>> /usr/texbin. This suggests that the file in /paths.d wasn't read; they were
>> edited. My only real suggestion, if they were edited, is to edit them again
>> and replace /usr/texbin by /Library/TeX/texbin in those files. I don't know
>> how the system determines if the files have been edited.
>> >
>> > Good Luck,
>> > Herb Schulz
>> >
>> >> On Sep 2, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Ettore Aldrovandi <
>> ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The files in /etc should not have been edited. Fink is not known for
>> editing or changing anything outside /sw. In theory the tcsh should read
>> /etc/paths.d via /usr/libexec/path_helper called by /etc/csh.login (just
>> like bash or zsh for the other family of initialization files).
>> >>
>> >> I asked John to check if there is a .tcshrc file in $HOME.
>> >
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