Did you try my first workaround suggestion? It lets you keep PATH modifications to typical *nix ones: such as install scripts expect/suggest easing maintenance, ymmv.
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Danny Yoo <d...@hashcollision.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Viera Proulx <v...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > I am starting to play with scribble and have tried to generate a pdf > document from the scribble source. The conversion to html worked fine. > > > > When I hit the Scribble to PDF button I got: > > > > Welcome to DrRacket, version 5.2.1 [3m]. > > Language: scribble/manual; memory limit: 128 MB. > > scribble: loading xref > > scribble: rendering > > > . . > ../../../../../../../Applications/Racket/collects/scribble/private/run-pdflatex.rkt:7:0: > run-pdflatex: could not find a `pdflatex' executable > > > Ah, but this looks like a Mac OS X system. The environment that > Racket (and other Mac OS X graphical programs) uses to run executables > does not use the same variables as those provided by a "login" shell > like your Terminal. That means that even if your Terminal has an > appropriate PATH, it's not guaranteed that the graphical programs use > an environment with the right environmental variables. > > Environmental variables on Mac OS X is funky. You may need to modify > your $HOME/.MacOSX/environment.plist. See: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135688/setting-environment-variables-in-os-x > > Good luck! > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >
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