Problem finding references.bib in a subdirectory

[JoFrhwld]

I'm trying to render a quarto website that has a subdirectory with a qmd and a bib. But I've been getting an error from pandoc that reads:

ERROR: Failed to generate bibliography, rendering failed with code 1
pandoc: <PATH1>/<PATH2>references.bib: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

Where <PATH1> is the full path to the website's top directory, and <PATH2> is the full path to the bib file, concatenated onto the first path.

UPDATE!

I've figured out that the problem is somehow related to google-scholar: true in the main site's _quarto.yml. This is re-creating the issue for me:

git clone https://github.com/JoFrhwld/big_ref.git
cd big_ref
quarto render

If I edit the _quarto.yml file inside the project to comment out google-scholar: true the site renders fine (both my actual site and this minimal example)

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Previous Version

I tried recreating a minimal example here, but that website renders without an issue. Unfortunately, getting my specific example working is a little complicated, but here's how to do it:

git clone https://github.com/LingMethodsHub/LingMethodsHub.github.io.git
cd LingMethodsHub.github.io
git checkout drafting-tidynorm
git submodule update --init content/R/tidy-norm
cd content/R/tidy-norm

Then (because I'm still working out how to use renv) you'll need to launch R, and run

renv::init()
## Choose to set up from the lockfile
renv::install("concaveman")
## For some reason I could not get this package into the lockfile
quit()

Then

cd ../../../
quarto render

Then, you should get the error.

Just for information about my current quarto and pandoc versions:

❯ quarto --version
1.2.210
❯ pandoc --version
pandoc 2.19.2
Compiled with pandoc-types 1.22.2.1, texmath 0.12.5.2, skylighting 0.13,
citeproc 0.8.0.1, ipynb 0.2, hslua 2.2.1
Scripting engine: Lua 5.4

[JoFrhwld]

Some additional things I've tried, that didn't change the error:

• I changed bibliography value to bibliography: "./references.bib" in the content page header
• I removed csl: assets/lingmethodshub.csl in the main site _quarto.yml
• I tried setting site-path: "." in the content folder's _quarto.yml

In all cases, I still got the same pandoc: <PATH1>/<PATH2>references.bib: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory) error

[dragonstyle]

Ah this is a great piece of info - thank you!

I made a change in just this area which should be included in any build past v1.2.215 - do you mind trying the latest pre-release and see if that resolved the issue? https://quarto.org/docs/download/prerelease.html

[dragonstyle]

(I just tried cloning your simple repo and it was fixed for me using the latest pre-release, so I'm hoping my other fix resolved it!)

[JoFrhwld]

I’ll try this out with the bigger site later today!

[dragonstyle]

Great, thank you!

[JoFrhwld]

Yup! Quarto v1.2.233 renders without the pandoc error with google-scholar: true enabled!