kpsewhich + script in Mac

[Enrico Gregorio]

> On 27 Nov 2019, at 15:25 , Paulo Roberto Massa Cereda <cereda.paulo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Friends,
> 
> Apologies if this is too Mac-focused.
> 
> We recently received a report of arara not working inside TeXworks in a Mac machine. The 'arara' command (which is a symlink to 'arara.sh') is unable to locate kpsewhich and thus the arara jar is nowhere to be found. It was reproducible in my Mac machine as well.
> 
> Context:
> 
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/512037/running-arara-from-texworks-on-a-mac
> 
> The 'culprit' line in our script is as follows:
> 
> ---
> jarpath=`kpsewhich --progname="$scriptname" --format=texmfscripts "$jar"`
> ---
> 
> kpsewhich was used to locate the proper jar file and thus set up the full path to be provided to the virtual machine later on:
> 
> ---
> exec java -jar "$jarpath" "$@"
> ---
> 
> I am a bit puzzled on why kpsewhich is not found. I understand this is a path issue situation, but my Mac knowledge is almost non-existent. I thought TeX paths were globally visible...
> 
> I really appreciate any comments and findings towards my unfortunate scenario. Thank you!

I guess it’s the same as https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/issues/861

Note that older versions of TeXworks don’t show the issue.

Ciao
Enrico