But I can run bibtex manually with :! bibtex texfile and then compile with the \ll shortcut twice to get labels and citations correct in the body of the paper.
I'm on a MacBook Pro running 10.6.6 and MacVim 7.3(53) and an up-to-date TeXLive-2010-64.
It used to be that \ll would run bibtex and compile as necessary to get things right. I typically use my Win7 laptop with the equivalent software so I can't say for sure when this broke.
Thanks! FWIW, I'll paste my .vimrc and tex.vim files below.
My .vimrc file has
" general
set columns=80
set lines=40
set nu
set expandtab
set smartindent
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
" for vim-R-plugin2
set nocompatible
syntax enable
" for vimlatexsuite (and Vim-R-plugin)
" REQUIRED. This makes vim invoke Latex-Suite when you open a tex file.
filetype plugin on
" IMPORTANT: grep will sometimes skip displaying the file name if you
" search in a singe file. This will confuse Latex-Suite. Set your grep
" program to always generate a file-name.
set grepprg=grep\ -nH\ $*
" OPTIONAL: This enables automatic indentation as you type.
filetype indent on
" OPTIONAL: Starting with Vim 7, the filetype of empty .tex files defaults to
" 'plaintex' instead of 'tex', which results in vim-latex not being loaded.
" The following changes the default filetype back to 'tex':
let g:tex_flavor='latex'
And tex.vim has
let g:Tex_DefaultTargetFormat = 'pdf'
let g:Tex_CompileRule_dvi = 'latex --interaction=nonstopmode $*'
let g:Tex_CompileRule_ps = 'dvips -Pwww -o $*.ps $*.dvi'
let g:Tex_CompileRule_pspdf = 'ps2pdf $*.ps'
let g:Tex_CompileRule_dvipdf = 'dvipdfm $*.dvi'
let g:Tex_CompileRule_pdf = 'pdflatex -synctex=1 --interaction=nonstopmode $*'
let g:Tex_ViewRule_dvi = 'texniscope'
let g:Tex_ViewRule_ps = 'Preview'
let g:Tex_ViewRule_pdf = 'Skim'
let g:Tex_FormatDependency_ps = 'dvi,ps'
let g:Tex_FormatDependency_pspdf = 'dvi,ps,pspdf'
let g:Tex_FormatDependency_dvipdf = 'dvi,dvipdf'
" let g:Tex_IgnoredWarnings ='
" \"Underfull\n".
" \"Overfull\n".
" \"specifier changed to\n".
" \"You have requested\n".
" \"Missing number, treated as zero.\n".
" \"There were undefined references\n".
" \"Citation %.%# undefined\n".
" \"\oval, \circle, or \line size unavailable\n"'
