Re: [O] pdflatex not found?

[Nick Dokos]

Rainer M Krug <address@hidden> writes:

> Fatma Başak Aydemir <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I do not know the reasons but I had the same problem in the past on OS X.
>
> In from Yosemite onwards, programs started from the finder / spotlight /
> gui (however you call this) do *not* inherit from the .bashrc
> anymore. This caused many problems.

I can understand not inheriting from .bashrc: shells should only use
that for interactive initializations (aliases and such).

$HOME/.profile however is another matter: it is read by a login shell
(in a non-graphical or console environment) and so its settings are
inherited by everybody started from that login shell: that's where env
variables are supposed to be defined and exported. Desktop environments
have to go to some lengths to read it and initialize things but as I
mentioned in my previous message, they *do* do that (on Linux - although
the mechanism varies by distro, hence the "mess" comment).

If OS X does not use $HOME/.profile to initialize the environment of programs
(even in the graphical enviroment), that seems to me to be a serious
bug. 

-- 
Nick