[TxMt] Latex not found

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Dec 13, 2007, at 4:30 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 13 Dec 2007, at 09:30, Ben Wooliscroft wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> When I type "which pdflatex" into terminal it also returns  
>> nothing, but I
>> can go to /usr/texbin and see pdflatex.
>
> So you want to add ‘/usr/texbin’ to the PATH variable.

That shouldn't matter though, since we explicitly look for pdflatex  
under /usr/texbin

The problem here I think is the one fixed with commit 8619, in that  
the behavior of "which" has changed in Leopard (in the way it reports  
failure that is), so our code never makes it to the explicit look of  
paths (since it doesn't recognize the call to "which" that we make as  
failing).

Ben, are you running the most updated version of the bundle from the  
subversion repository?

>> [...] It appears that the files are there [...] but somehow hidden  
>> from the system, but not from TexShop?
>
> Programs (shell commands) are found by looking in the folders  
> specified as a :-separated list in the PATH environment variable.
>
> TexShop likely has /usr/texbin (and probably a few other locations)  
> as a hardcoded place to look for pdflatex, so that it works even w/ 
> o users setting up their PATH.

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College