My empty.tex is very similar:

% Created 2019-08-27 Tue 06:25
% Intended LaTeX compiler: pdflatex
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{grffile}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{capt-of}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\date{\today}
\title{}
\hypersetup{
 pdfauthor={},
 pdftitle={},
 pdfkeywords={},
 pdfsubject={},
 pdfcreator={Emacs 27.0.50 (Org mode 9.1.9)},
 pdflang={English}}
\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\end{document}

Th pdf is still not being produced:

org-compile-file: File "/home/matt/empty.pdf" wasn’t produced.  See "*Org
PDF LaTeX Output*" for details

Org LDF LaTeX Output says:


This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019/Arch Linux)
(preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
! I can't find file `empty.tex'.
<*> empty.tex

(Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit)
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> empty.tex

!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on .//texput.log.


However, empty.tex is clearly present.  Latex and pdflatex are both in my
$PATH.

Maybe this is a problem with pdflatex?


On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 2:14 AM Robert Klein <roklein@roklein.de> wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 21:20:53 -0400
> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Can someone point me to a minimal setup for testing PDF export with
> > "emacs -Q"? I am unable to produce a pdf with default settings and I
> > am pretty sure  that the latex is invalid... but I'm having trouble
> > testing it since I 9still) know so little about latex.
> >
> > Thanks everyone!
> >
> > Matt
>
> What is in your *messages* buffer after the export attempt?
>
> Whats the result when you export a blank “empty.org” file to LaTeX (C-c
> C-e l l)? I get
>
> --- snip ---
> % Created 2019-08-27 Tue 08:10
> % Intended LaTeX compiler: pdflatex
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \usepackage{grffile}
> \usepackage{longtable}
> \usepackage{wrapfig}
> \usepackage{rotating}
> \usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
> \usepackage{amsmath}
> \usepackage{textcomp}
> \usepackage{amssymb}
> \usepackage{capt-of}
> \usepackage{hyperref}
> \author{Robert Klein}
> \date{\today}
> \title{}
> \hypersetup{
>  pdfauthor={Robert Klein},
>  pdftitle={},
>  pdfkeywords={},
>  pdfsubject={},
>  pdfcreator={Emacs 26.2 (Org mode 9.1.9)},
>  pdflang={English}}
> \begin{document}
>
> \tableofcontents
>
> \end{document}
> --- snip ---
>
> Just in case, do you have latex/pdflatex installed and in your path?
>
> Best regards
> Robert
>