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Re: [O] pdflatex not found?


From: Rainer M Krug
Subject: Re: [O] pdflatex not found?
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:45:59 +0100
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Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:

> 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).

Right.

>
> $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. 

Aparently it is not.

Cheers,

Rainer
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