latex-doctor selects obsolete TeX Live bin before current 2026 installation

cannot find detect_texlive.py anywhere

MacOS recently went using ARM against (m1 m2 m3 chips)
which laptop/mac-mini you are using? (as per binary issue)

1. second of all

```
This plugin bundles the official Tectonic executable release 0.16.9`.
Release source:
https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/releases/tag/tectonic%400.16.9

````
as per THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md
C:\Users\User\.codex\plugins\cache\openai-bundled\latex-tectonic\0.1.1

maybe scripts/detect_texlive?
is something your AI AGENT created??
meaning you are using the correct Tectonic binary , but a issue within Tectonic?

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<img width="1903" height="653" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b2ba308f-7c58-4538-b1db-901834b9c3e2" />

they are some refrences to
texlive in tectonic its powered by powered by XeTeX and
TeXLive.

maybe ~~~ literal .codex\plugins\cache\openai-bundled\latex-tectonic~~~~ tectonic-path.mjs

```import { existsSync } from "node:fs";
import path from "node:path";
import { fileURLToPath, pathToFileURL } from "node:url";

export function getTectonicExecutablePath(
pluginRoot = path.resolve(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), ".."),
) {
const executableName =
process.platform === "win32" ? "tectonic.exe" : "tectonic";
const executablePath = path.join(pluginRoot, "bin", executableName);
if (!existsSync(executablePath)) {
throw new Error(
Bundled Tectonic executable not found at ${executablePath}.,
);
}
return executablePath;
}

if (import.meta.url === pathToFileURL(process.argv[1]).href) {
console.log(getTectonicExecutablePath());
}

````

I'm afraid the above bug report, written by Codex, should have been clearer.

Tectonic (XeLaTeX) that comes with Codex's LaTeX plugin worked perfectly, but I needed LuaLaTeX plus LuaTeX-ja rather than Tectonic's XeLaTeX engine for better Japanese typesetting, so I asked Codex to use the already installed TeX Live in my Mac (Apple Silicon). Codex tried to detect TeX Live using ~/.codex/plugins/cache/openai-bundled/latex/0.2.0/scripts/detect_texlive.py but failed to find the latest TeX Live binaries in /usr/local/texlive/2026/bin/universal-darwin, which is in my PATH. Instead it found the oldest TeX Live /usr/local/texlive/p2009/... and complained my TeX Live was too old. When the mistake was pointed out, Codex blamed it on a bug in detect_texlive.py, wrote the above bug report, and advised me to post it in here.

Thanks for the wonderful plugin. Hope this helps improve it.

~/.codex/plugins/cache/openai-bundled/latex/0.2.0/scripts/detect_texlive.py

detect_texlive.py genuinely does not appear anywhere publicly online — it's not indexed on GitHub, npm, or any public registry (sorry if my language aggressive)

maybe its some external library?

can you
zip -r latex-0.2.0.zip ~/.codex/plugins/cache/openai-bundled/latex/0.2.0
?

for me its latex-tectonic
and it says 0,1.1 after a fresh install. plus also resides in
C:\Users\User\.codex\plugins\cache\openai-bundled\latex-tectonic

not latex alone

I dont have a mac machine to confirm how it looks on macos

and https://github.com/openai/plugins doesnt have any latex at all

beside minor refrences of latex usage in
https://github.com/openai/plugins/blob/main/plugins/hugging-face/skills/paper-publisher/SKILL.md?plain=1#L48
and
https://github.com/openai/plugins/blob/main/plugins/zotero/skills/zotero/SKILL.md?plain=1#L3

a bit odd that latex bundle is missing --- but its likely due to the fact that it includes a binrary/.exe

perhaps its a university thing some student made , or a local registrary?
)))