On 11/08/2025 18:04, Christian Moe wrote:
Ihor Radchenko writes:
org-compile-file demanded the compilation target to be newer than .tex
source, which is apparently too strong requirement.
Fixed, on main.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=499bd92e2
Looks like the new requirement too is too strong. Any latex error during
the process now causes export to apparently fail with the message:
File "testfile.pdf" wasn't produced
This happens even if the error is non-critical and a PDF /is/ in fact
produced. So the error message can be misleading.
I agree. May it help if either modification time change *or* zero
command exit code is considered as (at least partial) success?
I admit, I faced the issue in quite specific environment. I do not use
LaTeX extensively, so minimal texlive is enough. Sometimes I am
experimenting with Org LaTeX-related features. To prevent errors, I have
empty files like ulem.sty, amsmath.sty, etc. Since the fix the following
warning became a fatal error
l.10 \usepackage
{amsmath}
The option `normalem' was not declared in package `ulem', perhaps you
misspelled its name. Try typing <return> to proceed.
On the one hand, this has the merit of alerting me to long-standing,
non-critical flaws in my setup and documents.
From my point of view, warnings should be warnings: neither hidden nor
fatal.
