[AUCTeX] Re: /bin/sh: latex: command not found (but it works in the terminal version)

[Erickson Al]

I have a general idea of the culprit and I have a workaround for this.

Terminal emacs inherits the properties of my terminal and executes any  
command available to the terminal.  Maybe something to do with exec- 
path...

On the other hand, Emacs.app does not do this _when i open it from the  
finder_ and apparently loads up some minimal defaults instead.

So the temporary solution is to open it from the terminal by  
executing /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs &

everything I mentioned before works in this instance of emacs,  
including preview (yay, what a cool feature).

I'm happy with this hack for the moment but I think it's something for  
the devs to work on for obvious reasons.

Cheers,
Alejandro

Le 29-May-09 à 12:45 PM, Al Erickson a écrit :

> Hi,
> I installed auctex and preview.  I open a .tex file with emacs (GNU  
> Emacs 22.1.50.1) and get the right menus that tell me it installed  
> auctex and preview.  This is on Mac OS 10.5, I use TeXLive 2008  
> which is installed at /usr/local/texlive/2008/ and latex's "/bin"  
> folder is aliased from /usr/texbin/ (I think it is a pretty standard  
> install).  LaTeX (C-c C-c) works normally in terminal emacs but not  
> in the graphical version.  Instead I get the error message:
>
> Running `LaTeX' on `ksegs' with ``latex  -interaction=nonstopmode  
> "\input" ksegs.tex''
> /bin/sh: latex: command not found
>
> LaTeX exited abnormally with code 127 at Fri May 29 01:21:15
>
> The problem was previously addressed at http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg02945.html 
>  where the original poster says he found the problem is known to be  
> intermittent (I asked him about it and he didn't have anything  
> further on the topic).  I didn't find any other evidence of that  
> though...
>
> for what it's worth, /usr/texbin is in the sh terminal path.
> sh-3.2$ echo $PATH
> /sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/games:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ 
> Versions/Current/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/ 
> usr/texbin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
>
> Thanks for your help.  If it's a bug, let me know and I'll try to  
> report it.  I hope Mail doesn't turn out to be HTML mail.  Lastly,  
> please consider that I tend to stumble my way through Unix and have  
> never used a mailing list.  Clear advice and instruction is  
> appreciated.
>
> Alejandro Erickson