[racket] using scribble --pdf on Windows

Well, does running pdflatex generate a log file like the scribble says
that it doesn't?

Robby

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
> On Windows 7, I have had no trouble using scribble --html.  For the
> first time in 5.1.3 I tried using scribble --pdf, and it does not
> work.  Does anyone recognize whether I'm doing something wrong?
>
> ventoux ~/Desktop/r/sk/tycs> scribble --pdf doc.scrbl
> run-pdflatex: did not generate a log file at doc.log
>
>  === context ===
> C:\Program Files
> (x86)\Racket\5.1.3\collects\scribble\private\run-pdflatex.rkt:25:2:
> loop
> C:\Program Files
> (x86)\Racket\5.1.3\collects\scribble\private\run-pdflatex.rkt:7:0:
> core
> C:\Program Files
> (x86)\Racket\5.1.3\collects\scribble\private\indirect-renderer.rkt:38:8:
> for-loop
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Racket\5.1.3\collects\scribble\run.rkt:105:0: build-docs
> C:\Program Files (x86)\Racket\5.1.3\collects\scribble\run.rkt: [running body]
>
> The problem can't be with finding the pdflatex executable, because the
> expression used in scribble/private/run-pdflatex.rkt finds it fine:
>
>> (or (find-executable-path "pdflatex")
>              (and (eq? 'windows (system-type))
>                   (find-executable-path "pdflatex.exe")))
> #<path:C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\pdflatex.exe>
>
> Anyone else seeing this problem?
>
> Shriram
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