":make" doesn't work as $* is no valid variable in vim

[mowgli]

This bug is similar to #157.

\ll is working fine. However, I am used to type :make and usually my fingers are faster than my brain.

But the makeprg is set wrong:

:verbose set makeprg?
  makeprg=pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -file-line-error-style $*
        Zuletzt gesetzt in ~/.vim/bundle/vim-latex/ftplugin/latex-suite/compiler.vim Zeile 37

The variable $* is not valid in vim (It is in Makefile but not in vim).

Shouldn't that set to pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -file-line-error-style %?

[mowgli]

Note that there are many such settings in ftplugin/latex-suite/texrc.

[gerw]

I never used :make myself for tex files and I also do not use vim-latex to compile my documents.

By looking at the code, it seems that the intention is to call :make filename and then, $* is replaced by filename, see, e.g., https://github.com/vim-latex/vim-latex/blob/master/ftplugin/latex-suite/compiler.vim#L146.

Hence, making :make work is not as simple as changing $* to %. Maybe the simplest workaround for you is to change your setting of makeprg.