[Tex/LaTex] Latexmk: Stop processing on pdflatex error

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If my tex-files contain an error (such as an undefined control sequence), latexmk will present a prompt and ask for manual input before continuing. Now, of course it is possible to force further processing, e.g. as described here Don't make me manually abort a LaTeX compile when there's an error or here Make latexmk ignore errors and finish compiling.

However, in case of an error I would like Latexmk to stop processing completely and to return to the command line. Is there any way to accomplish this?

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I have this in my .latexmkrc:

$pdflatex = "pdflatex -synctex=1 -halt-on-error %O %S";

In my case I tend to use -pvc all the time, so here it just stops the compilation if there is an error and go back to waiting for change. You can also use the -interaction=... option.

If I'm not mistaken you can also pass these on to pdflatex via latexmk CLI options

Reading latexmk --help you can actually use latexmk -halt-on-error directly

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Try adding the .tex extension back on to the file. I'm not sure why arXiv would remove it, but many editors will assume that it's there when running compile sequences.

To see what I mean, compare the compilation for pdfLaTeX and BibTeX:

$ pdflatex myfile.tex
$ bibtex myfile

Note that bibtex doesn't need the file extension since it also looks at the files generated by the LaTeX run. Editors like TeXworks (and others, no doubt) will run these sequences for you automatically, but this requires that it knows where the extension is so that it can remove it. When there is no extension to remove, ambiguities will arise:

$ pdflatex myfile
$ bibtex myfile

It's likely that one of these programs picked up on the 'wrong' myfile, causing the error that you saw. (For example, take a look inside the aux file; running pdflatex directly on this file would certainly throw an error.)

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If you run latexmk with the argument -pdf, it will compile with pdflatex.

In TeXWorks:

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On Linux, change the `~/.latexmkrc' file as per this SE answer.

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