[texworks] LaTeXmk issue with Mac OS X Yosemite (new OS)

Sun Oct 19 15:36:38 CEST 2014

> On Oct 19, 2014, at 8:22 AM, Guillaume Cabanac <guillaume.cabanac at univ-tlse3.fr> wrote:
> 
> Dear Herbert,
> 
> Thanks for offering your help.  Here are the information you requested:
> 
>> This has nothing to do with TeXworks or the latexmk tools for TeXworks. It has everything to do with the Yosemite installer doing some strange things. Please let us know the output of the following Terminal commands:
>> 
>> echo $PATH
> 
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/texbin
> 
>> ls -alF /
> 
> total 47
> drwxr-xr-x  37 root 1326 Oct 18 18:14 ./
> drwxr-xr-x  37 root 1326 Oct 18 18:14 ../
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root 6148 Oct 18 16:56 .DS_Store
> d--x--x--x   9 root  306 Oct 18 18:14 .DocumentRevisions-V100/
> drwxr-xr-x+  3 root  102 Oct 18 06:14 .MobileBackups/
> -rw-r--r--   1 root 1484 Oct 18 02:16 .OSInstallerMessages
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root   68 May 27  2013 .PKInstallSandboxManager/
> drwx------   5 root  170 May 27  2013 .Spotlight-V100/
> d-wx-wx-wt   2 root   68 Oct 18 06:14 .Trashes/
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  181 Aug 26  2013 .com.apple.backupd.mvlist.plist
> srwxrwxrwx   1 root    0 Oct 18 18:14 .dbfseventsd=
> ----------   1 root    0 Sep  9 22:47 .file
> drwx------  76 root 2584 Oct 19 14:58 .fseventsd/
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root   68 Sep 10 01:27 .vol/
> drwxrwxr-x+ 73 root 2482 Oct 18 08:46 Applications/
> drwxr-xr-x+ 69 root 2346 Oct 18 02:16 Library/
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root   68 Sep  9 22:47 Network/
> drwxr-xr-x+  4 root  136 Oct 18 02:06 System/
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   60 Oct 25  2011 User Guides And Information -> /Library/Documentation/User Guides and Information.localized/
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   49 Aug 26  2013 User Information -> /Library/Documentation/User Information.localized/
> drwxr-xr-x   6 root  204 Oct 18 02:07 Users/
> drwxrwxrwt+  5 root  170 Oct 19 12:41 Volumes/
> drwxr-xr-x  39 root 1326 Oct 18 02:06 bin/
> drwxrwxr-t   2 root   68 Sep  9 22:47 cores/
> dr-xr-xr-x   3 root 4316 Oct 18 18:14 dev/
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   11 Oct 18 02:02 etc -> private/etc/
> dr-xr-xr-x   2 root    1 Oct 19 14:32 home/
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  313 Oct  1 08:12 installer.failurerequests
> drwxrwxrwt   3 root  102 Oct 18 01:57 lost+found/
> dr-xr-xr-x   2 root    1 Oct 19 14:32 net/
> drwxr-xr-x   6 root  204 Apr 13  2014 opt/
> drwxr-xr-x   6 root  204 Oct 18 02:07 private/
> drwxr-xr-x  59 root 2006 Oct 18 02:07 sbin/
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   11 Oct 18 02:03 tmp -> private/tmp/
> drwxr-xr-x  12 root  408 Oct 18 08:54 usr/
> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root   11 Oct 18 02:03 var -> private/var/
> 
>> ls -alF /usr
> 
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x   12 root      408 Oct 18 08:54 ./
> drwxr-xr-x   37 root     1326 Oct 18 18:14 ../
> drwxr-xr-x 1087 root    36958 Oct 18 08:49 bin/
> drwxr-xr-x  257 root     8738 Oct 18 08:54 include/
> drwxr-xr-x  285 root     9690 Oct 18 08:54 lib/
> drwxr-xr-x  174 root     5916 Oct 18 08:49 libexec/
> drwxr-xr-x    7 root      238 Feb  6  2013 llvm-gcc-4.2/
> drwxr-xr-x   25 cabanac   850 Oct 18 15:56 local/
> drwxr-xr-x  244 root     8296 Oct 18 02:07 sbin/
> drwxr-xr-x   49 root     1666 Oct 18 08:54 share/
> drwxr-xr-x    4 root      136 Oct 18 02:03 standalone/
> lrwxr-xr-x    1 root       44 Jun 18 23:18 texbin -> ../Library/TeX/Distributions/Programs/texbin/
> 
>> ls -alF /usr/local
> 
> total 48
> drwxr-xr-x  25 cabanac   850 Oct 18 15:56 ./
> drwxr-xr-x  12 root      408 Oct 18 08:54 ../
> drwxr-xr-x  15 cabanac   510 Oct 18 15:56 .git/
> -rw-r--r--   1 cabanac   280 Oct 18 15:56 .gitignore
> -rw-r--r--   1 cabanac    80 Oct 18 15:56 .yardopts
> -rw-r--r--   1 cabanac  3158 Feb 23  2014 CODEOFCONDUCT.md
> -rw-r--r--   1 cabanac   846 Jul 14 11:02 CONTRIBUTING.md
> drwxr-xr-x 171 cabanac  5814 Oct 17 14:32 Cellar/
> drwxr-xr-x  21 cabanac   714 Oct 16 09:36 Frameworks/
> -rw-r--r--   1 cabanac  1253 Apr 23 09:29 LICENSE.txt
> drwxr-xr-x  10 cabanac   340 Oct  3 15:39 Library/
> -rw-r--r--   1 cabanac  1854 Aug 28 18:01 README.md
> -rw-r--r--   1 cabanac 23719 Mar  8  2014 SUPPORTERS.md
> drwxr-xr-x 706 cabanac 24004 Oct 18 08:15 bin/
> drwxrwxr-x  19 cabanac   646 Oct 17 14:41 etc/
> drwxrwxr-x 202 cabanac  6868 Oct 17 14:41 include/
> drwxr-xr-x   3 cabanac   102 Oct 23  2013 juniper/
> drwxrwxr-x 689 cabanac 23426 Oct 17 14:41 lib/
> drwxr-xr-x   3 cabanac   102 Oct 23  2013 libexec/
> drwxr-xr-x   5 cabanac   170 Oct 23  2013 man/
> drwxr-xr-x 168 cabanac  5712 Oct 18 08:15 opt/
> drwxr-xr-x  12 cabanac   408 Oct 17 14:41 sbin/
> drwxrwxr-x  63 cabanac  2142 Oct  9 09:47 share/
> drwxr-xr-x   4 cabanac   136 Jun 18 23:35 texlive/
> drwxr-xr-x   6 cabanac   204 Apr 22 11:08 var/
> 
>> ls -alF /usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-darwin/pdflatex
> 
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 cabanac 6 Jun 18 23:14 /usr/local/texlive/2014/bin/x86_64-darwin/pdflatex -> pdftex*
> 
>> so we can analyze what's going on.
>> 
>> Others thinking about updating to Yosemite should read the information at <http://www.tug.org/mactex/yosemite.html> for more information and a way to avoid the problem with the Yosemite install.
> 
> I wasn't aware of this important page.  Nevertheless, I heard about the Yosemite install being long so I used the following workaround, as recommended here -> https://jimlindley.com/blog/yosemite-upgrade-homebrew-tips/
> 
>  sudo mv /usr/local ~/local
>  install Yosemite
>  sudo mv ~/local /usr
> 
>> Good Luck,
> 
> Do you see anything wrong in these data?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Guillaume

Howdy,

The method you used to avoid the long Yosemite install problem looks fine.

At first glance all looks fine! Could you try to install FixMacTeX2014.pkg found in /Applications/TeX and let us know if that helps.

Finally, what does

which pdflatex

return?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)