AUCTeX and Tramp

AUCTeX and Tramp

[Stephen Berman]

When I try to run LaTeX via Tramp on a remote file under AUCTeX, LaTeX
says it can't find the file.  I can't tell if this is a bug or a faulty
configuration or other user error.  I have the same LaTeX setup (paths,
etc.) on both the local and remote machines.  I can reproduce the
problem with Emacs -Q by evaluating (load "auctex.el" nil t t), opening
the file via /ssh:, and typing C-c C-c to run LaTeX.  Then I get the
following output:

--------8<---------
Running `LaTeX' on `dwds' with ``latex  -interaction=nonstopmode "\input" dwds.tex''
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
entering extended mode
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, nohyphenation, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech, slovak, german, ngerman, danish, esperanto, spanish, catalan, galician, estonian, finnish, french, greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, croatian, hungarian, interlingua, ibycus, indonesian, icelandic, italian, latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk, polish, portuguese, pinyin, romanian, russian, slovenian, uppersorbian, serbian, swedish, turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, loaded.
! I can't find file `dwds.tex'.
<*> \input dwds.tex
                   
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> \input dwds.tex
                   
No pages of output.
Transcript written on texput.log.

LaTeX exited abnormally with code 1 at Mon May  5 15:19:25
-------->8---------

There's no problem running LaTeX on the same file under AUCTeX locally
on either machine, and there's no problem running LaTeX on the same file
via Tramp under the standard Emacs LaTeX-mode.  It's only the
combination Tramp+AUCTeX that fails.  I'd be grateful for any help
resolving this.

This is with GNU Emacs 23.0.60.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
2.12.0) of 2008-05-05 on escher

Steve Berman

Re: AUCTeX and Tramp

[Joel J. Adamson]

Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net> writes:

> When I try to run LaTeX via Tramp on a remote file under AUCTeX, LaTeX
> says it can't find the file.  I can't tell if this is a bug or a faulty
> configuration or other user error.  I have the same LaTeX setup (paths,
> etc.) on both the local and remote machines.  I can reproduce the
> problem with Emacs -Q by evaluating (load "auctex.el" nil t t), opening
> the file via /ssh:, and typing C-c C-c to run LaTeX.  Then I get the
> following output:

Are you sure you're running latex on the remote server?

Joel

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Re: AUCTeX and Tramp

[Stephen Berman]

On Mon, 05 May 2008 13:10:21 -0400 jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) wrote:

> Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> When I try to run LaTeX via Tramp on a remote file under AUCTeX, LaTeX
>> says it can't find the file.  I can't tell if this is a bug or a faulty
>> configuration or other user error.  I have the same LaTeX setup (paths,
>> etc.) on both the local and remote machines.  I can reproduce the
>> problem with Emacs -Q by evaluating (load "auctex.el" nil t t), opening
>> the file via /ssh:, and typing C-c C-c to run LaTeX.  Then I get the
>> following output:
>
> Are you sure you're running latex on the remote server?

I assumed typing C-c C-c in the LaTeX buffer under Tramp would run LaTeX
on the remote machine; at any rate, as I mentioned in my OP, when I put
the buffer of the remote file in the standard Emacs (non-AUCTeX) LaTeX
mode, I can run LaTeX and it produces a .dvi file on the remote machine.
So this looks like an AUCTeX problem; I'll seek help on the AUCTeX list.

Steve Berman