Re: Installing auctex from source

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 23.02.2009 um 07:34 schrieb smanek:
>
>> Running `LaTeX' on `ps0' with ``latex  -interaction=nonstopmode
>> "\input" document.tex''
>> /bin/sh: latex: not found
>
>
> Obviously GNU Emacs does not know where to search for the latex
> executable.

It calls a shell to do the search.

> This means that the process environment in which GNU Emacs runs does
> not have an environment variable PATH that contains the path to latex
> as one of many elements. The reason is that the complete value of PATH
> (or $PATH) was not inherited from whatever launched GNU Emacs.
>
> The cure is: correct GNU Emacs launch.
> Or correct the value of the GNU Emacs variable exec-path (to contain
> also the path to latex).

That does not help since the shell uses PATH, not exec-path, for
figuring out the location of latex.

-- 
David Kastrup