[OS X TeX] MacTeX 2014 TeX Distribution panel broken under Mac OSX Yosemite RC

[John Minter]

> On Oct 6, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> John Minter <jrminter at ...> writes:
>> 
>> Installing /Applications/TeX/FixMactex2014.pkg should fix
>> that and any problems with the 
>> /usr/texbin symbolic link.
>> I’ll file these away on my backup disk for the next time. 
>> The links are there, the OS just doesn’t pass 
>> them to the Apps...
> 
> Can you clarify that? What do you mean the OS does not pass 
> the links (symlinks, I assume?) to the  Apps?
> 
I mean that the OS does not pass environment variables like $PATH that include /usr/texbin that is typically appended) to the apps. Hence RStudio can’t find the LaTeX installation.
> --
> Ettore
> 
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