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I use MacOS, LateXTools in Sublime Text as a TeX editor, and MacTeX as a TeX distribution. I store my macros in a folder named TEXINPUTS on Dropbox, and set up symlinks to the relevant location in my texmf tree.

sudo ln -s /Users/nickriches/Dropbox/TEXINPUTS /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex

This has worked fine under a variety of different MacOSes, but I am running into problems under MacOS Catalina. When I compile a document, it does not find the relevant .tex files stored in TEXINPUTS. This is very odd because when I do a system check with LaTeXTools, the location where the symlink has been created shows up as possible path for TEXINPUTS;

:/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex

So as far as I can see, TeX knows where to look. But it is still not finding the relevant .tex files. I've also tried setting the variable on the command line using EXPORT;

export TEXINPUTS=.:/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/$TEXINPUTS

which didn't work. Finally, I tried to enter the path in LaTeXTools builder settings;

("env:" {"TEXINPUTS": ".:/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/TEXINPUTS"}

but for some reason, when I did this I lost the ability to compile any document.

Any pointers greatly welcomed!

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    you want a trailing : in ("env:" {"TEXINPUTS": ".:/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/TEXINPUTS"} otherwise you not only add your directory, you remove all the standard places. similarly your export should have no$ and should have a : so export TEXINPUTS=.:/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/TEXINPUTS: or if the issue is the symlink use /Users/nickriches/Dropbox/TEXINPUTS instead of usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/TEXINPUTS ? – David Carlisle Jun 20 '20 at 10:14
  • I'm not sure what is happening that changed when you installed Catalina gut I know that Dropbox sometimes leads to problems.. Assuming you are using the TeX Live installed by the MacTeX installer why not put the link in your personal tree, ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex? – Herb Schulz Jun 20 '20 at 12:38
  • Thanks for tip about colon at end of path, but adding it via "export" or in the LaTeXTools settings does not help. I didn't understand the issue about the symlink. I need to link from dropbox to relevant location in texmf. The path mentioned by Herb does not exist in MacOD Catalina – Nick Riches Jun 20 '20 at 16:30
  • Okay, I have now done this. In the first place, the path I used to create the symlink was wrong! Secondly, I needed to place the path in the LaTeXTools settings file. Although the relevant path is appearing when LaTeXTools does a systems check for some reason it will not look in that location when compiling unless the path is added to the settings file. I was able to do this with help from David - I hadn't known it was necessary to add the colon at the end. I am not sure whether to put this as an answer myself, or maybe David can place his comment as an answer, and I can tick it. – Nick Riches Jun 20 '20 at 17:23

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