building a package on a Mac: pdflatex

Hi Federico,

On 5 Jul 2011, at 10:44, Federico Calboli wrote:

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My comment is, pdflatex *is* availiable:

$ :/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin$ ls -l pdflatex 
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  6 21 Oct  2010 pdflatex -> pdftex

and

$ :/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin$ ls -l pdflatex 
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  6 21 Oct  2010 pdflatex -> pdftex

Before anyone asks:

$ :/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin$ ls /usr/texbin/pdflatex 
/usr/texbin/pdflatex

My environment is different to yours, but these may help:

1. Add this line to (or create a new file) ~/.profile

test -d /usr/local/texlive/2010 && PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin:$PATH &&
                            MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/doc/man:$MANPATH

2. Edit R

#!/bin/sh
# Shell wrapper for R executable.

export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin:$PATH  # THIS IS THE ADDED LINE

R_HOME_DIR=/sw/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
if test "${R_HOME_DIR}" = "/sw/Library/Frameworks/lib/R"; then


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