From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: help with exec-path Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:26:03 +0100 Message-ID: <87vcqj8jdw.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87r51fp4h1.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <1321473200.8200.YahooMailNeo@web161606.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321503998 13627 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2011 04:26:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:26:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 17 05:26:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RQtYY-0001rB-DM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:26:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53664 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RQtYS-00065f-NC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:26:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51504) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RQtYP-00065Z-Ho for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:26:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RQtYO-00009L-AD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:26:25 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:44592) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RQtYO-000098-4Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:26:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RQtYJ-0001jB-3t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:26:19 +0100 Original-Received: from 212.17.152.150 ([212.17.152.150]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:26:19 +0100 Original-Received: from eric by 212.17.152.150 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:26:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.17.152.150 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mFeP0Zm99bXhVzFDX7va46rTN1c= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82937 Archived-At: On Wed, Nov 16 2011, S Boucher wrote: >>I'm trying to get auctex to use the executables in my self-compiled >>texlive installation. I set the proper paths in my .bashrc file, and >>again (just for good measure) with (setenv "PATH") in my .emacs. That >>doesn't get the proper paths into `exec-path', though. > > If you start emacs from your desktop menu, PATH will likely NOT have what is specified in your .bashrc. Grr, that was exactly it. I was starting from a desktop shortcut -- should have thought of that. Thanks for the help! Eric > First, > try starting emacs from a shell.  If your exec-path is ok, then you'll > have to figure out how to add configs for your particular desktop > manager. > > -- GNU Emacs 24.0.91.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.6) of 2011-11-07 on pellet