I have a directory with the following files
➜ hrrep git:(master) ✗ ls -l
total 1000
drwxrwxrwx 22 zmjones staff 748 May 28 23:28 data
-rw-rw-rw- 1 zmjones staff 7180 May 20 16:17 data.R
drwxrwxrwx 9 zmjones staff 306 May 28 23:38 figures
-rw-r--r-- 1 zmjones staff 85841 May 28 23:23 hill_jones_hr.bib
-rw-r--r-- 1 zmjones staff 29193 May 28 22:23 hill_jones_hr.tex
-rw-r--r-- 1 zmjones staff 572 May 28 23:46 makefile
-rw-rw-rw- 1 zmjones staff 9588 May 28 22:47 models.R
drwxrwxrwx 3 zmjones staff 102 May 28 23:28 papers
drwxrwxrwx 9 zmjones staff 306 May 28 23:28 tex
-rw-r--r-- 1 zmjones staff 1483 May 20 12:58 un_data.py
These files are described by a makefile (using GNU Make 3.81)
all: ./data/cat_un_data.csv ./data/rep.csv ./figures/*.png ./hj-hr.pdf
./data/cat_un_data.csv: un_data.py #refreshing one will refresh all
python un_data.py
./data/rep.csv: data.R ./data/cat_un_data.csv
R CMD BATCH --no-save --no-restore data.R
./figures/*.png: models.R ./data/rep.csv
R CMD BATCH --no-save --no-restore models.R
TEXMCD := pdflatex -interaction=batchmode
hill_jones_hr.pdf: hill_jones_hr.tex ./figures/*.png
$(TEXCMD) $<
]bibtex *.aux
$(TEXCMD) $<
$(TEXCMD) $<
find . | egrep ".*((\.(aux|log|blg|bbl|out|Rout|Rhistory|DS_Store))|~)$$" | xargs rm
rm -rf auto
The makefile seems to work fine until it gets to the hll_jones_hr.pdf target, where it fails with an error:
hill_jones_hr.tex
make: hill_jones_hr.tex: No such file or directory
make: *** [hill_jones_hr.pdf] Error 1
I don't understand what the problem is. The document compiles fine when I execute pdflatex
and bibtex
manually. I tried adding the ignore error flag to no avail. I presume this is some stupid make error that I am making. This folder is in Dropbox if that makes any difference. I also tried adding the ./
prefix to both the .tex
file and the .pdf
target; the error was the same.
The problem is that the $(TEXCMD)
variable is not defined, so your command:
$(TEXCMD) $<
is expanding to just $<
or just the filename, which is not a legal command by itself.