build_all.sh is not working (not able to generate article.pdf) about mlrc

[wi25hoy]

seems like its a common problem as i have seen in previous issues as well. hopefully, ACs could help us out.

[MeilinaR]

Hi, we're facing a similar issue here! I am getting the error as described in our pull request, but my teammate received the following error:

Building editorial/
/home/tannin/Desktop/MLRC/2021/editorial/journal
Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 26 Dec. 2019, version: 4.67.
Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 26 Dec. 2019, version: 4.67.
Rule 'pdflatex': The following rules & subrules became out-of-date:
      'pdflatex'
------------
Run number 1 of rule 'pdflatex'
------------
------------
Running 'xelatex -interaction=nonstopmode  -recorder  "article.tex"'
------------
Latexmk: Missing input file: 'biblatex.sty' from line
  '! LaTeX Error: File `biblatex.sty' not found.'
Latexmk: Log file says no output from latex
Latexmk: For rule 'pdflatex', no output was made
------------
Running 'make "biblatex.sty"'
------------
make[1]:  No rule to make target 'biblatex.sty'.  Stop.
Collected error summary (may duplicate other messages):
  pdflatex: Command for 'pdflatex' gave return code 1
      Refer to 'article.log' for details
Latexmk: Use the -f option to force complete processing,
 unless error was exceeding maximum runs, or warnings treated as errors.
make:  [Makefile:30: article.pdf] Error 12
Build complete
rm: cannot remove 'article.bbl': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'article.blg': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'article.out': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'article.run.xml': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'article.bcf': No such file or directory
Building vleuten2022re/
/home/tannin/Desktop/MLRC/2021/vleuten2022re/journal
Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 26 Dec. 2019, version: 4.67.
Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 26 Dec. 2019, version: 4.67.
Rule 'pdflatex': The following rules & subrules became out-of-date:
      'pdflatex'
------------
Run number 1 of rule 'pdflatex'
------------
------------
Running 'xelatex -interaction=nonstopmode  -recorder  "article.tex"'
------------
Latexmk: Missing input file: 'biblatex.sty' from line
  '! LaTeX Error: File `biblatex.sty' not found.'
Latexmk: Log file says no output from latex
Latexmk: For rule 'pdflatex', no output was made
------------
Running 'make "biblatex.sty"'
------------
make[1]:  No rule to make target 'biblatex.sty'.  Stop.
Collected error summary (may duplicate other messages):
  pdflatex: Command for 'pdflatex' gave return code 1
      Refer to 'article.log' for details
Latexmk: Use the -f option to force complete processing,
 unless error was exceeding maximum runs, or warnings treated as errors.
make:  [Makefile:30: article.pdf] Error 12
Build complete
rm: cannot remove 'article.bbl': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'article.blg': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'article.out': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'article.run.xml': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'article.bcf': No such file or directory

[ShuaiWang97]

We have the same issue too.

[jeroenwijnen98]

I have a similar issue, only with me the problems appear to start because the file article.bbl cannot be found:

Rc files read:
  NONE
Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 17 Mar. 2022. Version 4.77, version: 4.77.
No specific requests made, so using default for latexmk.
Latexmk: Doing main (small) clean up for 'article.tex'
Latexmk: Doing extra clean up (of final output files) for 'article.tex'
Latexmk: Doing main (small) clean up for 'content.tex'
Latexmk: Doing extra clean up (of final output files) for 'content.tex'
Latexmk: Doing main (small) clean up for 'header.tex'
Latexmk: Doing extra clean up (of final output files) for 'header.tex'
Latexmk: Doing main (small) clean up for 'metadata.tex'
Latexmk: Doing extra clean up (of final output files) for 'metadata.tex'
Latexmk: Missing bbl file 'article.bbl' in following:
 No file article.bbl.
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `article.bbl'.  Stop.
Build complete
Building petcu2022replication/
/Users/marcwijnen/Documents/GitHub/MLRC/2021/petcu2022replication/journal
Rc files read:
  NONE
Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 17 Mar. 2022. Version 4.77, version: 4.77.
No specific requests made, so using default for latexmk.
Latexmk: Doing main (small) clean up for 'article.tex'
Latexmk: Doing extra clean up (of final output files) for 'article.tex'
Latexmk: Doing main (small) clean up for 'content.tex'
Latexmk: Doing extra clean up (of final output files) for 'content.tex'
Latexmk: Doing main (small) clean up for 'header.tex'
Latexmk: Doing extra clean up (of final output files) for 'header.tex'
rm: metadata.tex: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/marcwijnen/Documents/GitHub/MLRC/2021/petcu2022replication/journal/./yaml-to-latex.py", line 93, in <module>
    content = generate_latex_metadata(filename_in, article)
  File "/Users/marcwijnen/Documents/GitHub/MLRC/2021/petcu2022replication/journal/./yaml-to-latex.py", line 10, in generate_latex_metadata
    "% DO NOT EDIT - automatically generated from {filename}\n\n"
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'name'
make: *** [metadata.tex] Error 1
Build complete
rm: article.aux: No such file or directory
rm: article.bbl: No such file or directory
rm: article.blg: No such file or directory
rm: article.fdb_latexmk: No such file or directory
rm: article.fls: No such file or directory
rm: article.out: No such file or directory
rm: article.log: No such file or directory
rm: article.run.xml: No such file or directory
rm: article.bcf: No such file or directory
(code) re-stud-146-50-222-219:2021 marcwijnen$ ./build_all.sh
Building editorial/
/Users/marcwijnen/Documents/GitHub/MLRC/2021/editorial/journal
Rc files read:
  NONE
Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 17 Mar. 2022. Version 4.77, version: 4.77.
No specific requests made, so using default for latexmk.
Latexmk: Doing main (small) clean up for 'article.tex'
Latexmk: Doing extra clean up (of final output files) for 'article.tex'
Latexmk: Doing main (small) clean up for 'content.tex'
Latexmk: Doing extra clean up (of final output files) for 'content.tex'
Latexmk: Doing main (small) clean up for 'header.tex'
Latexmk: Doing extra clean up (of final output files) for 'header.tex'
Latexmk: Doing main (small) clean up for 'metadata.tex'
Latexmk: Doing extra clean up (of final output files) for 'metadata.tex'
Latexmk: Missing bbl file 'article.bbl' in following:
 No file article.bbl.
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `article.bbl'.  Stop.
Build complete
Building petcu2022replication/
/Users/marcwijnen/Documents/GitHub/MLRC/2021/petcu2022replication/journal
Rc files read:
  NONE
Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 17 Mar. 2022. Version 4.77, version: 4.77.
No specific requests made, so using default for latexmk.
Latexmk: Doing main (small) clean up for 'article.tex'
Latexmk: Doing extra clean up (of final output files) for 'article.tex'
Latexmk: Doing main (small) clean up for 'content.tex'
Latexmk: Doing extra clean up (of final output files) for 'content.tex'
Latexmk: Doing main (small) clean up for 'header.tex'
Latexmk: Doing extra clean up (of final output files) for 'header.tex'
rm: metadata.tex: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/marcwijnen/Documents/GitHub/MLRC/2021/petcu2022replication/journal/./yaml-to-latex.py", line 93, in <module>
    content = generate_latex_metadata(filename_in, article)
  File "/Users/marcwijnen/Documents/GitHub/MLRC/2021/petcu2022replication/journal/./yaml-to-latex.py", line 10, in generate_latex_metadata
    "% DO NOT EDIT - automatically generated from {filename}\n\n"
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'name'
make: *** [metadata.tex] Error 1
Build complete
rm: article.aux: No such file or directory
rm: article.bbl: No such file or directory
rm: article.blg: No such file or directory
rm: article.fdb_latexmk: No such file or directory
rm: article.fls: No such file or directory
rm: article.out: No such file or directory
rm: article.log: No such file or directory
rm: article.run.xml: No such file or directory
rm: article.bcf: No such file or directory

[GuillyK]

I have the same error as @jeroenwijnen98 where it builds. but has an error on 'name'

  NONE
Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 17 Mar. 2022. Version 4.77, version: 4.77.
No specific requests made, so using default for latexmk.
Latexmk: Doing main (small) clean up for 'article.tex'
Latexmk: Doing extra clean up (of final output files) for 'article.tex'
Latexmk: Doing main (small) clean up for 'content.tex'
Latexmk: Doing extra clean up (of final output files) for 'content.tex'
Latexmk: Doing main (small) clean up for 'header.tex'
Latexmk: Doing extra clean up (of final output files) for 'header.tex'
rm: metadata.tex: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./yaml-to-latex.py", line 93, in <module>
    content = generate_latex_metadata(filename_in, article)
  File "./yaml-to-latex.py", line 10, in generate_latex_metadata
    "% DO NOT EDIT - automatically generated from {filename}\n\n"
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'name'
make: *** [metadata.tex] Error 1
Build complete
rm: article.aux: No such file or directory
rm: article.bbl: No such file or directory
rm: article.blg: No such file or directory
rm: article.fdb_latexmk: No such file or directory
rm: article.fls: No such file or directory
rm: article.out: No such file or directory
rm: article.log: No such file or directory
rm: article.run.xml: No such file or directory
rm: article.bcf: No such file or directory

[koustuvsinha]

Hi, please flag these issues in your own PR's, we will respond within them individually. Thanks!

[ShuaiWang97]

We got advice from our colleague, for Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install texlive-bibtex-extra biber

[koustuvsinha]

Closing this as most of you have resolved it. Feel free to re-open if you are facing the same issue.