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I switched to texlive 2018 yesterday.

My Build-Environment: Win64, Texstudio, latexmk, lualatex, biber.

I tried to compile a test document - it worked fined using my old TL-17 and the new TL-18 installation.

Today I updated the TL-18 installation (using: tlmgr update --all). Now latexmk does not work anymore - I guess it crashes. I guess, because I don't get any output and I don't know how to further debug the problem:

Calling latexmk manually (e.g. latexmk --help) reports nothing: no help, no error message is printed. latexmk delivered with TL-17 still works fine - see this screenshot:

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  • it works Ok in cygwin tl2018, could be an issue with the windows build, perhaps raise on the texlive list
    – David Carlisle
    May 2, 2018 at 18:32
  • I also experienced this TeX Live 2018 bug, which appeared with the today update.
    – user91669
    May 2, 2018 at 18:54
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    perl path/to/latexmk.pl answers so only the wrapper seems to be broken.
    – Ulrike Fischer
    May 2, 2018 at 19:04
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    It already has been reported to the texlive mailing list: tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2018-May/041574.html
    – lAtExFaN
    May 2, 2018 at 20:24

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It seems latexmk.exe finds the wrong script.

What it should look for is

texmf-dist/scripts/latexmk/latexmk.pl

However,

texmf-dist/scripts/make4ht/extensions/latexmk.lua

is found instead.

If you do not use make4ht, one workaround is to rename latexmk.lua (for example to latexmkX.lua).

Source: http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2018-May/041580.html

UPDATE: The author of make4ht has renamed latexmk extension to latexmk_build in version 0.2b.

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