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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pdflatex not found?
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 13:50:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oafk5hfi.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 562FAE2D.3080409@pfdstudio.com

Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:

> On 10/27/15 12:45 PM, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>
>         Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:
>
>         If OS X does not use $HOME/.profile to initialize the environment of programs
>         (even in the graphical enviroment), that seems to me to be a serious
>         bug. 
>         
>     Aparently it is not.
>
> According to <http://www.science.unitn.it/~fiorella/guidelinux/gs/node153.html>, .profile is
> bash-specific. tcsh has a different set of login/session initialization files.
>

No, it does not say that .profile is bash-specific at all: it
just says it's used by bash and not used by tcsh. What *is*
specific to bash is $HOME/.bash_profile.

$HOME/.profile is used by the original Bourne shell and its descendants,
ksh and bash - Wikipedia says it's also used by zsh.  AFAIK, it is
mandated by POSIX. It is not used by csh and its descendants (they use
.login instead).

But when setting up the window environment on Linux, the various scripts
are executed by whatever POSIX shell is available on the system (usually
sh on Linux), because a POSIX shell is supposed to be part of a POSIX
system, so guaranteed to be available (which is not true of csh/tcsh).
Hence .profile is the common denominator.

--
Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-27 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-27 13:43 pdflatex not found? Peter Davis
2015-10-27 13:55 ` Fatma Başak Aydemir
2015-10-27 15:37   ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 15:48     ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 15:51     ` John Kitchin
2015-10-27 15:58       ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 16:06         ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-10-28 12:40           ` Alan Schmitt
2015-10-27 15:44   ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 16:19     ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 16:45       ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 17:02         ` Peter Davis
2015-10-27 17:50           ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2015-10-27 17:59             ` Peter Davis
2015-10-27 18:30               ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 17:14         ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 15:40 ` Rainer M Krug
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-10-27 16:12 Peter Davis
2015-10-27 16:40 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-26 22:18 Peter Davis
2015-10-27  0:14 ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27  5:45   ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 16:07   ` Charles C. Berry
2015-10-26 19:26 Peter Davis
2015-10-26 19:50 ` John Hendy
2015-10-26 20:29   ` Myles English
2015-10-26 21:43     ` Charles C. Berry
2015-10-26 20:03 ` Nick Dokos

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