Re: [AUCTeX] BIBINPUTS

[Ralf Angeli]

* Greg BOGNAR (2006-01-28) writes:

>> * Greg BOGNAR (2006-01-26) writes:
>
>>> I have bibligraphy databases in a dedicated directory.  I set
>>> BIBINPUTS for that directory.
>
>> How do you set BIBINPUTS?  In my case I have
>> BIBINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/bibtex/bib//
>> in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf.
>
> Same here.  But I want to set it to ~/Documents/bibliographies or
> something like that, not ~/texmf/bibtex/bib.  My bibliography
> databases should be kept together with the rest of my documents.

So how do you set it?

> Meanwhile, I got a solution from Fernando Tusell, I hope he does not
> mind that I copy parts of his message here:
>
>> I had a problem similar to yours: starting a session under bash, I
>> could find files pointed to by BIBINPUTS, but not otherwise.
>
>> It turned out that when I started Emacs from a graphical session in
>> Gnome, the file .bashrc (where the environment variable BIBINPUTS is
>> set) was not read. The simple fix in my case was to set BIBINPUTS in
>> file .gnomerc (and later I found that making a link from .gnomerc to
>> .bashrc also works, and I only have to change and maintain .bashrc).
>
> I use Fvwm, and the solution was the same: I just set BIBINPUTS again
> in my .fvwm/config.  Now it all works.  But I doubt it has to do with
> the graphical session; it does not work when I run Emacs without X.  
> It seems that Emacs does not read .bashrc at all.

,----[ bash(1) ]
| When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a  non-inter-
| active  shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes com-
| mands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.   After  reading
| that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile,
| in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one  that
| exists  and  is  readable.  The --noprofile option may be used when the
| shell is started to inhibit this behavior.
`----

Perhaps you need to source .bashrc in .bash_profile.

-- 
Ralf