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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pdflatex not found?
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:19:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpu85lon.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m24mhce2ob.fsf@krugs.de

Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:

> Fatma Başak Aydemir <aydemirfb@gmail.com> 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).

$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. 

-- 
Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-27 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-27 13:43 pdflatex not found? Peter Davis
2015-10-27 13:55 ` Fatma Başak Aydemir
2015-10-27 15:37   ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 15:48     ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 15:51     ` John Kitchin
2015-10-27 15:58       ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 16:06         ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-10-28 12:40           ` Alan Schmitt
2015-10-27 15:44   ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 16:19     ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2015-10-27 16:45       ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 17:02         ` Peter Davis
2015-10-27 17:50           ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 17:59             ` Peter Davis
2015-10-27 18:30               ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 17:14         ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 15:40 ` Rainer M Krug
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-10-27 16:12 Peter Davis
2015-10-27 16:40 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-26 22:18 Peter Davis
2015-10-27  0:14 ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27  5:45   ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 16:07   ` Charles C. Berry
2015-10-26 19:26 Peter Davis
2015-10-26 19:50 ` John Hendy
2015-10-26 20:29   ` Myles English
2015-10-26 21:43     ` Charles C. Berry
2015-10-26 20:03 ` Nick Dokos

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