rubber gives warnings about missing files if they are on a different filesystem

[Jason Lewis]

Hi,

If you include images in your LaTeX document using \includegraphics{/mnt/ot/images/image.jpg} and the path to the image happens to be on a different file system, you will see warnings like:

test-grffile.tex:15: graphics `/mnt/ot/images/image.jpg' not found

which is incorrect.

I tested this with rubber downloaded from head from lp.

in my case /mnt/ot/images/image.jpg is an automounted CIFS mount.

I'm not really familiar with python so I have no idea where to look to fix this. I don't mind having a crack at it if someone could give me a pointer or two.

example code:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

include an image on a different fs:
\includegraphics{/mnt/ot/images/image.jpg}

\end{document}

[Jason Lewis (jason-dickson)]

Hi,

Further testing revealed that it is not filesystem dependant but related to if the image file is included using a relative or absolute path.

it seems as though if it is included with an absolute path, it gives the erroneous warning.

example:

 \documentclass{report}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

include absolute path:
\includegraphics{/home/jason/catalogue/test/image.jpg}

include relative path:
\includegraphics{../test/image.jpg}

\end{document}

will output this:

jason@debian:~/catalogue/test$ rubber test-grffile.tex
test-grffile.tex:22: graphics `/home/jason/catalogue/test/image.jpg' not found
nothing to be done for test-grffile.tex
jason@debian:~/catalogue/test$

[Jason Lewis (jason-dickson)]

Here is a patch that solves this problem by checking to see if the path is absolute and converting it to relative before calling doc.env.convert

[Jason Lewis (jason-dickson)]

patch was made against the rubber-20100306.tar.gz release