Problem while including a non existing eps file

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When I try to compile a latex file with a comand includegraphics for an eps 
file that doesn't exist, it display the following message:
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NOTE: You may ignore warnings about the following files:

     bug.d

Makefile:2556: bug.d: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
= bug.tex --> bug.d bug.dvi.1st.make (0-1) =
bug.d:10: *** séparateur manquant . Arrêt.
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And the line 10 in the file is :
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tmp.eps' not found. See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation. 
Type H <return> for immediate help. ... l.6 \includegraphics{tmp.eps} Try 
typing <return> to proceed. If that doesn't work, type X <return> to quit.
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I think that the Makefile should display the latex error message instead, 
shouldn't it ?

Thanks anyway for the Makefile. It's brilliant!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by etienne....@gmail.com on 19 May 2011 at 5:59

Attachments:

• bug.tex
• Makefile

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You are using a slightly old version of the makefile. Can you try the most 
recent alpha version and see if that fixes the problem?  This looks familiar to 
me :)

Original comment by shiblon on 19 May 2011 at 6:05

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Indeed, I've another error message:
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NOTE: You may ignore warnings about the following files:

     bug.d

Makefile:2621: bug.d: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
= bug.tex --> bug.d bug.dvi.1st.make (0-1) =
make: *** Pas de règle pour fabriquer la cible « tmp », nécessaire pour « 
bug.d ». Arrêt.
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Original comment by etienne....@gmail.com on 19 May 2011 at 6:11

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Aha.  Weird that it didn't give you the proper message.  You should try 
removing the .eps from the file name:

\includegraphics{tmp}

I'll look at the errors, but that's what's going on, essentially.  pdflatex 
doesn't understand .eps files, and that's what the 2.2 makefile defaults to 
using.

Meanwhile, I'm accepting this issue, since there is definitely a reporting 
problem of some kind.  I'll look into that.

Original comment by shiblon on 19 May 2011 at 7:53

• Changed state: Accepted

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I know that pdflatex doesn't understand eps file but I changed the Makefile to 
assigned the value "latex" to the "BUILD_STRATEGY" variable. 

I tried to remove the ".eps" from the filename but it didn't changed anything...

I hope you'll find a solution ;)

Original comment by etienne....@gmail.com on 19 May 2011 at 8:08

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Ah, okay.  I see.  I'll create a Makefile.ini with that setting and test it 
against your example to see what I can do.

Original comment by shib...@google.com on 20 May 2011 at 6:11

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Aha.  I see what's going on.

I am not at all confident that this is something that I can "fix" inside of the 
makefile.  Here's what's happening:

- latex runs to generate dependencies, notices that "tmp.eps" is not found, and 
is a graphic.  No problem, graphics can be created by source files.  The 
dependency is inserted in to the bug.d file.

- Make then restarts, since it depends on bug.d and it has changed.  It loads 
that, finds that it depends on tmp.eps, and bails because it can't find any 
rules to generate that missing file.

Since this is make doing it, I'm not sure I can output the latex log for it.  
The error message isn't really unclear, but it is jarring when you're used to 
the nice formatting :)

The message that "make" gives me is this:

make: *** No rule to make target `tmp', needed by `bug.d'.  Stop.

That seems like a reasonable error to me, so I'll mark this as wontfix (working 
as intended).  Feel free to reopen if you disagree. :-)

Original comment by shiblon on 20 May 2011 at 6:43

• Changed state: WontFix