LaTeXTools in ST3 no longer compiling LaTeX after upgrade to El Capitan

Question

I can use LaTeX in the terminal just fine, but after installing El Capitan I receive the following error.

    TraditionalBuilder: Invoking latexmk... 

    COULD NOT COMPILE!

    Attempted command:latexmk -cd -e $pdflatex = 'pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode -synctex=1 %S %O' -f -pdf exam_1_sol.tex

Build engine: Traditional Builder

I reconfigured and migrated settings, that didn't change anything. I also checked the package settings, which appear below.

"osx":  {
    // Path used when invoking tex & friends; MUST include $PATH
    "texpath" : "$PATH:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin"
    // Path to PDF viewer, if needed
    // TODO think about it. Also, maybe configure it here!
},

Any help?

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score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 05 '15 at 04:23

I'm the author of LaTeXTools. I pushed an update a couple of days ago that should have fixed the El Capitan issue. However, as they say on Facebook, it's complicated :)

El Capitan no longer allows apps access to /usr. MacTeX 2015 addresses this by creating a link to the TeX binaries in /Library/TeX/texbin. The LaTeXTool update adds this to the texpath option by default (you may need to reconfigure your settings). See the README for details.

However, MacTeX <2015 do NOT have the /Library/TeX/texbin link. Exactly where the binaries are depends on the MacTeX version. Recent ones do seem to use /Library/TeX/Distributions/Programs/texbin, but older ones do not. Sadly, this means you need to figure out the right path and add it to the texpath option.

As for EPS files, I'm not sure what's going on---it may be that some external tool (perhaps even latexmk) fails because of the El Capitan changes. Not sure it's something that's related to LaTeXTools per se.

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 01 '15 at 14:53

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Thanks! From looking around, it appears that ST3 doesn't automatically inherit (or at least my installation didn't) the $PATH variable properly. IT's a simple fix. Change the package settings to include the path to latexmk (/Library/TeX/texbin),

"osx":  {
        // Path used when invoking tex & friends; MUST include $PATH
        "texpath" :     "$PATH:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/local/bin:/Library/TeX/texbin"
        // Path to PDF viewer, if needed
        // TODO think about it. Also, maybe configure it here!
    },

That fixed my issue.

answered Oct 01 '15 at 14:53

user88901

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hi, this only works for documents with no eps figure included. eps used to be automatically converted to pdf in yosemite, but now it's not done and results in error. – egwene sedai Oct 01 '15 at 16:37
For me the necessary path was /Library/TeX/Distributions/Programs/texbin/ – Gabriel C. Drummond-Cole Oct 02 '15 at 04:44

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 17 '17 at 07:49

You can try my method, at least it works for me. Sublime Text-> Preferences->Package Settings->LaTeXTools->Reset user settings to default

I installed Sublime Text3 + MacTex2017 + skim

I have searched the internet for many solutions, most people told me to run "LaTeXTools: Reconfigure and migrate settings" in command palette, but I could not find this command. Then I tried the above method. Maybe the author knows what happened behind :)

LaTeXTools in ST3 no longer compiling LaTeX after upgrade to El Capitan

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