Re: [AUCTeX] configuration question

[Tom Sgouros]

That appears to be the problem.  Thank you very much for the pointers.

 -tom


On Feb 11, 2011, at 3:20 AM, Ivan Andrus wrote:

> On Feb 10, 2011, at 4:00 AM, Tom Sgouros wrote:
>> Hello all:
>> 
>> I need to understand the difference between how AucTeX invokes TeX and how I 
>> do it at a shell.  When I use AucTeX, I get the following, reporting about a 
>> local class file I use.
>> 
>>> Running `LaTeX' on `plan' with ``/usr/texbin/pdflatex  
>>> -interaction=nonstopmode "\input" plan.tex''
>>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009)
>>> entering extended mode
>>> LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
>>> Babel <v3.8l> ...
>>> 
>>> (./plan.tex
>>> 
>>> ! LaTeX Error: File `ts-report.cls' not found.
>> 
>> On the same machine, running at the shell, all is fine:
>> 
>>> $ /usr/texbin/pdflatex plan.tex
>>> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009)
>>> entering extended mode
>>> (./plan.tex
>>> LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
>>> Babel <v3.8l> ...
>>> 
>>> (/Users/tomfool/texmf/tex/latex/ts-report.cls
>>> Miscellaneous reports class -- Tom Sgouros - 2010
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/memoir/memoir.cls
>>> ...
>> 
>> The file in question is in a local texmf tree I use, and texhash has been 
>> run on it recently.  This is GNU Emacs 23.2.1 compiled for a Mac.  To make 
>> it a little more mysterious, AucTeX was working for me last week.  I am not 
>> sure what happened in the interim.  I did move the emacs install directory, 
>> but can't remember whether the move was before or after the problem began.
>> 
>> I can't find in the list archives or in the documentation enough detail 
>> about how AucTeX invokes TeX to understand what my problem is.  Can anyone 
>> here help me?
> 
> I've had problems like this and they were due to differences in
> environment variables.  When you run it in a shell, is that a shell
> inside Emacs?  Even so, if you are setting TeX related environment
> variables like TEXINPUTS in your .bashrc, then they won't get picked
> up by Emacs on OS X, _unless_ you started Emacs from a shell.  The way
> to set environment variables in OS X is in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
> though of course you can also set them in your .emacs.  
> 
> FWIW I keep environment.plist updated automatically using a method
> similar to the one found here:
> http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/8915
> 
> HTH,
> Ivan