Mac Kile with KDE4

[Nicolas Pavillon]

On Dec 5, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Jochen Küpper wrote:

> 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?
> 
That's exactly what the utility I am proposing below is doing, in fact. The problem is that this sets the $PATH variable for the whole system, while it is supposed to be possible to set environment variables specifically for each application through the Info.plist in the bundle. 
However, this is broken for what I searched. 

>> 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.
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