bug#30158: 11.90.2.2017-07-25; latex from command line is ok, but called from auctex, gives problems

[Uwe Brauer]

> > > "Mosè" == Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes: 

   > Hi Uwe, 2018-01-20 14:19 GMT+01:00 Uwe Brauer 
   > <address@hidden>: 
   >> So I now started emacs from the command line and then 
   >> everything is fine. Only when I use an icon to start with. 
   >> Strange. 

   > This isn't much strange if you use Ubuntu.  If I remember 
   > correctly, programs started from the desktop environment 
   > don't know about users init files. 

Well in the case of Ubuntu 14.04 it worked. I have to re check the 
machine, but I cannot remember any special setting I did there and 
not in Ubuntu 16. 


   > I never tried myself because I didn't need to, but you may 
   > want to have a look at 
   > https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell in order to 
   > set your environment variables from the shell. 

I tried to set
'(exec-path-from-shell-variables (quote ("PATH" "MANPATH" 
"TEXINPUTS")))

Via custom but that did not help. Odd situation.

Uwe