Mac Kile with KDE4

[Jochen Küpper]

On 05.12.2009, at 21:27, Nicolas Pavillon wrote:

> I don't have the same TeX distribution (I am using MacTeX package), but I ran into the same issue before. The problem is that Apple application bundles do not load the $PATH variable. I may be wrong, but for what I searched before, the way to get paths loaded for each application seems broken, even though I did not search again since snow leopard release.

Doesn’t it work to set PATH in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist?

> I found two ways to solve the problem:
> 1. Launch Kile from the terminal (something like  /Applications/MacPorts/KDE4/kile.app/Contents/MacOS/kile in my case). The $PATH will be loaded since you started the application from Terminal. 
> 2. Use a utility such as Environment Variables (http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/environmentvariablepreferencepane.html) to set the $PATH globally for each applications. In this case, launching Kile from Finder will work. 
> 
> You can also check if everything is alright in Kile by using the Settings->System Check... utility. 
> 
> Cheers, 
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:11 PM, linus handschin wrote:
> 
>> Hi everybody
>> 
>> 
>> I've installed Kile on my osx snow leopard with kde4. its working so far but I can't build my documents. I can build it by hand but if i try to build it in kile i get the following error: 
>> pdflatex output:
>> /bin/ksh: line 1: pdflatex: not found
>> 
>> 
>> I can't find any settings to set the installation folder of tex or similar. I have the port package texlive_base installed.