On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> wrote: > Yes, this may solve some problems but not all. The PATH bug is still > there on Yosemite, and I see it can still bite me in LyX after I > reconfigured from the terminal. For the time being, the only reliable > solution seems to be starting LyX from the terminal. > Or ditching Apple altogether? :)
Liviu > See more info at > http://stackoverflow.com/q/26491934/559676 (and the link in the > answer). Since this is a general problem on Yosemite, you might find > other apps are affected as well (as long as they launch sub processes > and call programs that are not in /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin). The > solution of starting apps from the terminal should apply to all of > them. > > Regards, > Yihui > -- > Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> > Web: http://yihui.name > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote: >> THis seems to be a problem with paths and environmental variables passed >> to sub-processes (also mentiond on the R sig mac list): Yosemite seems >> to have implemented security mechanisms which do (to me) unknown things >> to paths and environmental variables. >> >> So, in a nutshell: >> >> 1) If you do a reconfigure in LyX started from the icon / finder / >> spotlight, the reconfigure seems not to find the files needed, and does >> finish nearly immediately and does not creates an (empty?) configuration >> file >> >> 2) If you start lyx from the terminal >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> /PATH/TO/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> and reconfigure then, it is working. >> >> Workaround: >> Startt from terminal and reconfigure - after this everything seems to be >> working >> >> Solution: >> No idea, but I guess an update in LyX >> >> Hope this helps, >> >> Rainer >> >> >> Christopher Menzel <chris.men...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Hal Kierstead wrote: >>>> I am trying to use LyX 2.1.2 with Yosemite, but review does not work >>>> for me. I cannot even preview the help manuals. I can export them >>>> to LaTex and then compile them with LaTex. This must be some path >>>> problem, but I do not know how to deal with it. Any help would be >>>> appreciated. >>> >>> Couple of very quick ideas: >>> >>> . Perhaps reconfiguring (Tools -> reconfigure) might help. >>> . If you aren't using the latest version of MacTeX >>> <http://tug.org/mactex/>, consider upgrading. >>> >>> -chris >>> >> >> -- >> Rainer M. Krug >> email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de >> PGP: 0x0F52F982 -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
