Re: [AUCTeX] Re: Specifying the TeX tree

[David Kastrup]

Olivier Lefevre <address@hidden> writes:

> If the texmf-dir option is just for the style files then my problem
> is that I can't get auctex to find latex, pdflatex etc. You can't
> just insert the whole path in the custom settings because the name
> of the pdflatex executable is obtained by prepending "pdf" to
> "latex"

It isn't.  You could configure a whole path into LaTeX-command-style
if you really wanted to.  However, that is a bad idea.

> and thus you get, e.g., "pdfc:/somepath/latex.exe". So, how does one
> do it? Please don't tell me that they just have to be on the PATH...

Why not?  That's the way to do this.

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