Re: auctex - no valid bibliography?

[Tyler]

David Kastrup wrote:

> It is possible that your .bib file has the same file name before the
> extension as your .tex file.  AUCTeX currently does not deal well with
> that situation.

No, they have very distinct names, chaptertwo.tex and ty.bib.

I think I finally got to the bottom of this. I realised bibtex was 
working properly, but reftex wasn't. The version of LaTex I'm using is 
tetex on debian, which uses the kpsewhich program to manage paths. So I 
needed to add the following to my .emacs file so that reftex knew to 
also use the kpsewhich program:

(setq reftex-external-file-finders
      '(("tex" . "kpsewhich -format=.tex %f")
        ("bib" . "kpsewhich -format=.bib %f")))

This is in the reftex info pages, in the section under finding files. It 
took me awhile to find it as I didn't realise the problem wasn't with 
auctex, or bibtex, but with reftex.

Hopefully that will resolve my problem permanently, and maybe save 
someone else some time in future.

Cheers,

Tyler