On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 1:33 PM John Kitchin wrote: > that does suggest that pdflatex is getting called somewhere else. > > Maybe you can edebug the export function and check the value of > default-directory to see where it is getting called. > > You could also try this > > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp > (defun my-build (quoted-tex-file) > (message "Building %s. Called from %s" quoted-tex-file > default-directory)) > > (setq org-latex-pdf-process 'my-build) > #+END_SRC > > It won't build the pdf, but it will tell you in the messages where it was > called from. It might help figure out what is happening. > huh. that was kinda cool... but the value of default-directory seems to be correct. However, this helped a bit: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (shell-command-to-string "echo $PWD") #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: : /home/matt/src/org-mode Not sure what's going on here, but this value is the same in a regular emacs and "emacs -Q". is this normal? John > > ----------------------------------- > Professor John Kitchin > Doherty Hall A207F > Department of Chemical Engineering > Carnegie Mellon University > Pittsburgh, PA 15213 > 412-268-7803 > @johnkitchin > http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu > > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 8:57 AM Matt Price wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 8:27 AM John Kitchin >> wrote: >> >>> Can you manually compile the empty.tex file from the command line? eg >>> >>> pdflatex empty >>> >>> (reposting to group) >> >> pdflatex empty >> >> Seems to work fine. Hmmm... >> >>> John >>> >>> ----------------------------------- >>> Professor John Kitchin >>> Doherty Hall A207F >>> Department of Chemical Engineering >>> Carnegie Mellon University >>> Pittsburgh, PA 15213 >>> 412-268-7803 >>> @johnkitchin >>> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 7:57 AM Julius Dittmar >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Am 27.08.19 um 12:34 schrieb Matt Price: >>>> > 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'. >>>> >>>> So pdflatex is called and found. Then pdflatex can't find empty.tex. >>>> That looks like pdflatex is called in another directory than where >>>> empty.tex resides. How that could happen, no idea. >>>> >>>> Julius >>>> >>>>