[TxMt] TextMate & LaTeX via MacPorts

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Mar 16, 2007, at 6:41 PM, Christopher W. MacMinn wrote:

>> puts `which kpsewhich`
>> puts `. /etc/profile; which kpsewhich`
>
> RubyMate r6354 running Ruby r1.8.2 (/usr/bin/ruby)
> >>> untitled
>
> /opt/local/bin/kpsewhich
> no kpsewhich in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin

Hm, this is perplexing me a bit. You mean that "puts `which  
kpsewhich`" finds the kpsewhich binary, but "puts `. /etc/profile;  
which kpsewhich" doesn't?
Also please run it not using RubyMate, but using the "Execute  
Selection as Ruby" command, which is typically bound to ctrl-shift-E,  
just to make sure that we are talking about the exact same thing.

Can you also send me the contents of /etc/profile? And  
also .bash_profile or any other initialization file that may be in use.
I guess the key question is: How does DarwinPorts add to the PATH  
variable? If it was doing it by messing with /etc/profile, then the  
above should have worked. Does it use .bash_profile or something like  
that?

One simple solution that I can think of is that you create a symbolic  
link named /usr/texbin to point to /opt/local/bin, though I'm not  
sure if this could cause any other problems.

I suppose we could also add /opt/local/bin to the list of directories  
we are explicitly looking for.

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College