[OS X TeX] teTeX still on my path

[S P Suresh]

On 27-Nov-06, at 4:06 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 27.11.2006 um 11:24 schrieb S P Suresh:
>
>> When I closed all tabs and relaunched a shell, /usr/local/ 
>> teTeX/... reappears in my PATH. It is quite mysterious
>
> I think Spotlight is no mystery: it simply finds things. And I'm  
> sure it can find some files with /usr/local/teTeX/... in it ...
>
> To debug your PATH issue: edit all files bash is using to set  
> itself up with these two lines in the beginning:
>
> 	echo "This file is <you name it>"
> 	echo "Starting PATH is $PATH"
>
> and these two lines at the end:
>
> 	echo "Final PATH has become $PATH"
> 	echo "This was set-up by <you name it>"
>
> Now you can see when PATH changes. It's then easy to determine the  
> reason.
>
> --
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>
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Hi,

Thanks for your suggestion. I found the source of the extra paths...  
well, not completely yet. In my ~/.profile, the first line says: test  
-r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh. It is automatically put  
there by Fink. I have isolated init.sh as the one which adds /usr/ 
local/teTeX/... to my PATH. Also /usr/local/teTeX/man to my MANPATH.  
When I looked into /sw/bin/init.sh, I didn't see an explicit mention  
of anything relating to TeX. I think a crude hack is to comment out  
the first line in my ~/.profile, and whichever other place that line  
occurs in (my ~/.bashrc, for instance), and replace it by explicitly  
making additions to my PATH and MANPATH. Though it is a mystery as to  
where /sw/bin/init.sh picks up /usr/local/teTeX/... from! Let me pry  
a bit more into it.

Thanks for the help.

Cheers,
Suresh

S P Suresh
Chennai Mathematical Institute
India



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