[OS X TeX] /sw/bin/init.csh

Dariush M Doust dariush.doust at gu.se
Sun Nov 14 16:23:40 CET 2010


Yes, thanks to all of you who answered to my question. The problem was  
that single line in ~/tcshrc. i removed the line and Texshop seems to  
work now.
Darius

On Nov 14, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:

> On 14/11/10 10:19, Dariush M Doust wrote:
>> I have been away from LaTeX since 2004. Updating the Tex Structure  
>> with
>> MacTex 2010 seems has created some problem. I wanted to try XeLatex  
>> and
>> LuaTex and in both cases I had this error on the first line of the
>> console and typesetting (I use Texshop) stops:
>>
>> /sw/bin/init.csh: No such file or directory.
>>
>> Now, I guess that there is some tiny piece of information somewhere  
>> that
>> sends the typesetter to look for soemthing that does not exist. I can
>> not figure out what it is and couldn't find anything on the  
>> internet or
>> the archive of this list (looked back six months). On this machine, I
>> had previously Greben's I-installer, prior to that at some point I  
>> used
>> also Fink, and until couple of years ago I had AlphaX installed on my
>> hard drive. Anything they have done somewhere?
>
> This comes from (an ancient version of) a Fink initialization in one  
> of your shell startup scripts. Look in ~/.cshrc or ~/.tcshrc for a  
> line like
>
>  source /sw/bin/init.csh
>
> and remove it. The error goes also away if you install Fink.
>
> -- 
> M





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