Commit 98e74d67511295 introduced a bug for me

[cristobaltapia]

Description

The commit 98e74d6 introduced the following error when compiling a large latex document. It does not happen for every document. I still need to produce a mwe, but in the meanwhile I wanted to post this here in case that this was easy to fix.

VimTeX: Creating build_dir directorie(s):
        * /media/raid_2/local_projects/Forschung/Promotion/Dissertation/aux-folder/../../../../../../us
r/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools
Error detected while processing function vimtex#compiler#compile_ss[1]..328[3]..327[3]..331:
line   26:
E739: Cannot create directory /media/raid_2/local_projects/Forschung/Promotion/Dissertation/aux-folder/
../../../../../../usr: permission denied

For some reason Vimtex want to write in my /usr dir.

Steps to reproduce

No response

Expected behavior

No response

Actual behavior

No response

Do you use a latexmkrc file?

no

VimtexInfo

System info
  OS: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
  Vim version: NVIM v0.6.0-dev
  Has clientserver: true
  Servername: /tmp/nvim5RJDhV/0

VimTeX project: dissertation
  base: dissertation.tex
  root: /media/raid_2/local_projects/Forschung/Promotion/Dissertation
  tex: /media/raid_2/local_projects/Forschung/Promotion/Dissertation/dissertation.tex
  main parser: current file verified
  document class: phd-uni-stuttgart
  packages: afterpage amsbsy bm color enumitem extdash fixmath graphicx hypcap lipsum listings longtable lscape mhchem nameref nomencl pgfplots siunitx standalone styles/kbordermatrix threeparttablex tikz tikz-3dplot verbatim
  source files:
    dissertation.tex
    symbols.tex
    chapters/chapter_1_01.tex
    chapters/state_of_art.tex
    tables_chap_2/regressions_parameters_literature.tex
    chapters/materials.tex
    tables_material/gamiz_stats.tex
    tables_material/gamiz_glulam_stats.tex
    tables_material/gamiz_length_stats.tex
    tables_material/fcba_stats.tex
    tables_material/fcba_glulam_stats.tex
    tables_material/fcba_length_stats.tex
    chapters/knots.tex
    chapters/chapter_1_02.tex
    tables_chap_5/density_stats_global.tex
    tables_chap_5/density_stats_local.tex
    tables_chap_5/density_stats_cov.tex
    tables_chap_5/moes_stats_global.tex
    tables_chap_5/moes_stats_local.tex
    tables_chap_5/moes_stats_cov.tex
    tables_chap_5/norm_moe_fitted_distribution_params.tex
    tables_chap_5/ar_parameters_formatted.tex
    tables_chap_5/tensile_strength_stats_global.tex
    tables_chap_5/surv_analysis_models.tex
    tables_chap_5/survival_analysis_results.tex
    tables_chap_5/survival_analysis_parametric_results_formatted.tex
    tables_chap_5/survival_analysis_parametric_results_stats.tex
    tables_chap_5/regressions_parameters.tex
    ../../../../../../usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/.tex
    chapters/simulation_within_board_variation.tex
    tables_chap_6/ar_model_parameters.tex
    tables_chap_6/table_size_effect.tex
    chapters/chapter_1_05.tex
    img_fe_model/gamiz_general.tex
    chapters/parametric_analysis.tex
    tables_chap_7/stats_stiffness_results_gamiz.tex
    tables_chap_7/stats_stiffness_results_fcba.tex
    tables_chap_7/table_size_effect_length.tex
    tables_chap_7/results_loc.tex
    tables_chap_7/results_diff_loc.tex
    tables_chap_7/table_size_effect_fj_loc.tex
    tables_chap_7/results_scale.tex
    tables_chap_7/results_diff_scale.tex
    tables_chap_7/table_size_effect_fj_scale.tex
    chapters/chapter_1_06.tex
    chapters/appendix_moe.tex
    chapters/appendix_normalization_moe.tex
    chapters/appendix_umat.tex
    chapters/appendix_parameters.tex
    chapters/appendix_lpp.tex
  compiler: latexmk
    engine: -lualatex
    options:
      -verbose
      -shell-escape
      -file-line-error
      -synctex=1
      -interaction=nonstopmode
    build_dir: aux-folder
    callback: 0
    continuous: 0
    executable: latexmk
  viewer: Zathura
    xwin id: 0
  qf method: LaTeX logfile

[lervag]

For some reason Vimtex want to write in my /usr dir.

VimTeX project: dissertation
  ...
  source files:
    dissertation.tex
    ...
    tables_chap_5/density_stats_global.tex
    tables_chap_5/regressions_parameters.tex
    ../../../../../../usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/.tex

For some reason, VimTeX finds that you include ../../../../../../usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/.tex in your multi-file project. It is very unclear to me how and why, but perhaps there is a clue in the file regressions_parameters.tex?

I would expect the commit to work well in general, but it seems you are experiening a specific problem that at the very least should be handled. One simple way will be to just ignore the error, but I'd like to understand how to reproduce this first. I hope that's OK to you.

[cristobaltapia]

@lervag sure, that is OK to me. I will work on reproducing this when I found some time.

[djdt]

I also have this issue. I think I have tracked it down, when an \input{} command has anything following it on the same line (\cleardoublepage{} in my case) the /usr/... dir is found as a source instead of the file in \input{}.

Fix for me was to move the other command to a new line.

[lervag]

Thanks, that's interesting. I would be happy if you could provide a minimal example for this.

[djdt]

Here is one, the contents of other.tex does not matter.

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\input{other.tex}\par

\end{document}

The source files from :VimtexInfo are:

test.tex
../../../../usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/.tex

Removing \par and reloading vimtex will create the correct source files.

[djdt]

My guess is the first regex in input_to_filename (vimtex/autoload/vimtex/parser/tex.vim). But I'm not great with vim regexes.

[lervag]

Thanks! I've fixed this now; it was slightly more complicated than a faulty regex. Or, it was a faulty regex, but even more a faulty idea. I believe the fix should work well.

Also, note that this bug was actually more severe that it looked. @cristobaltapia The commit did not really introduce a bug, instead, the bug was already there, but you never noticed because it did not have any major consequence. So, thanks for describing the issue and thanks @djdt for helping with the reproducible example.

[cristobaltapia]

Thanks @lervag and @djdt. This fixes the problem for me, too.

[user202729]

Also regarding this change (remark: should open new proper bug if this is hard to fix)

I note that when I \input some file that is not in a subdirectory of the current file (for example /a/b/c, by absolute path) the program tries to create a folder in build_dir/../../../../a/b/c for example, which obviously doesn't success.

I don't know what TeX do/require folder to be created in this case.

[lervag]

I note that when I \input some file that is not in a subdirectory of the current file (for example /a/b/c, by absolute path) the program tries to create a folder in build_dir/../../../../a/b/c for example, which obviously doesn't success.

I don't know what TeX do/require folder to be created in this case.

I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand. Could you provide a complete example?