Re: [O] pdflatex not found?

[Nick Dokos]

Rainer M Krug <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.
>

They do things differently at Apple:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135688/setting-environment-variables-in-os-x

has some answers: imo, the launchd.conf method should be avoided (it
applies to every user), but the environment.plist method (whatever that
is) seems to be the right solution - and although it did not work for
Spotlight-launched applications (whatever Spotlight is) in 10.5, it
apparently works in 10.6 or later.

As you can imagine, all my knowledge comes from that article and
references therein: take it with the appropriate grain of salt.

Anyway, this is very far from org-mode, so maybe it should be pursued in
a different forum.

--
Nick