<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I am trying to use bibtex on a document. I have TeXLive 2015 installed on Mac OS X El Capitan. I am running it from the Terminal. When I call bibtex with either an absolute path name or relative path name with ‘/./‘ in it, I get an error saying it cannot write to the .blg file.<div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The following examples will work on my machine:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">bibtex texfile</div><div class="">bibtex path/to/texfile</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">the following will not work</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">bibtex /abs/path/to/texfile</div><div class="">bibtex path/to/./texfile</div><div class="">bibtex ../texfile</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I get the same error in TeXLive 2014, but TeXLive 2011 seems to work properly (the absolute and relative paths will work properly).<br class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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