Unknown program error when supplying path to latex-engine

[brentonk]

I'm using Pandoc 1.16 on OS X 10.11.2 installed via the OS X binary. I'm trying to convert a Markdown file to PDF, and I'm supplying a custom LaTeX engine via --latex-engine.

Here's what I entered at the command line to produce the error.

~$ echo "Hello world" > test.md
~$ which pdflatex
/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex
~$ pandoc test.md -o test.pdf --latex-engine=/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex
Unknown program /Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex
pandoc: Error producing PDF
~$ echo $?
43

This appears to be a regression from Pandoc 1.15.2, since the same commands produce the expected output when I install that version.

[jgm]

This is due to commit 0a768f1 The fix is quite easy. I will commit a patch shortly.

[yihui]

@jgm Could you provide a patch release for this bug at your earliest convenience? It has affected quite a few R Markdown users. Thanks!

[jgm]

I will try to get something out this weekend.

+++ Yihui Xie [Jan 08 16 13:13 ]:

[1]@jgm Could you provide a patch release for this bug at your earliest
convenience? It has affected quite a few R Markdown users. Thanks!

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References

1. https://github.com/jgm
2. Unknown program error when supplying path to latex-engine #2618 (comment)

[jgm]

PS. You could fix this in R Markdown by simply adding the
path to the latex program to PATH in the local environment
in which pandoc is run, and using the basename instead of
the fully qualified path in --latex-engine.

+++ Yihui Xie [Jan 08 16 13:13 ]:

[1]@jgm Could you provide a patch release for this bug at your earliest
convenience? It has affected quite a few R Markdown users. Thanks!

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References

1. https://github.com/jgm
2. Unknown program error when supplying path to latex-engine #2618 (comment)

[yihui]

Yeah, I know we can fix it in R Markdown, but our problem is that it is not easy for us to make a new release soon (due to the restrictions of CRAN). Thanks very much!