[AUCTeX] /bin/sh: latex: command not found (but it works in the terminal version)

[Al Erickson]

Hi,
I installed auctex and preview.  I open a .tex file with emacs (GNU  
Emacs 22.1.50.1) and get the right menus that tell me it installed  
auctex and preview.  This is on Mac OS 10.5, I use TeXLive 2008 which  
is installed at /usr/local/texlive/2008/ and latex's "/bin" folder is  
aliased from /usr/texbin/ (I think it is a pretty standard install).   
LaTeX (C-c C-c) works normally in terminal emacs but not in the  
graphical version.  Instead I get the error message:

Running `LaTeX' on `ksegs' with ``latex  -interaction=nonstopmode  
"\input" ksegs.tex''
/bin/sh: latex: command not found

LaTeX exited abnormally with code 127 at Fri May 29 01:21:15

The problem was previously addressed at http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg02945.html 
 where the original poster says he found the problem is known to be  
intermittent (I asked him about it and he didn't have anything further  
on the topic).  I didn't find any other evidence of that though...

for what it's worth, /usr/texbin is in the sh terminal path.
sh-3.2$ echo $PATH
/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/games:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/ 
Versions/Current/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ 
texbin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin

Thanks for your help.  If it's a bug, let me know and I'll try to  
report it.  I hope Mail doesn't turn out to be HTML mail.  Lastly,  
please consider that I tend to stumble my way through Unix and have  
never used a mailing list.  Clear advice and instruction is appreciated.

Alejandro Erickson