[Scons-users] [scons-users] SCons does not work properly with biblatex

[Managan, Rob]

Hi Olivier,

Glad we got something working.

Just to be clear, with the newer version of biblatex that you have; when you use addbibresource, scons still fails to recognize changes to ref.bib? Just wanted to confirm that it was not trying to access ref.bib.bib like I saw for the bibliography command. Not having the new version I can't test it right now but I am not sure what the difference between the two commands is.

I agree that we should work toward getting scons to work with biber and the other newer tools that are comming along.

Rob
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From: Olivier Verdier [olivier.verdier at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 11:28 PM
To: Managan, Rob
Cc: scons-users at scons.org
Subject: Re: [scons-users] SCons does not work properly with biblatex

Hi Rob
On 11 Jun 2012, at 18:16, Managan, Rob wrote:


> %\addbibresource{ref.bib}

> \bibliography{ref}

>

> to get the first pass to work. When I then go and edit ref.bib and run

> scons again it properly updates the pdf to include the changes in ref.bib.


This is a nice workaround! It also works for me. Thanks a lot!


> So let me know if using the deprecated \bibliography command helps with

> your setup.


I helped a lot, thanks!


> If not then I may have to work on installing the latest

> version of bib latex.


I think in the long run SCons should be patched to use biblatex because
1) the \bibliography command is now deprecated with biblatex
2) there is still an issue with biber; (see the commented parts of my first file); even when using \bibliography, biber is not run at all...

I think that the issue with biber is that, as opposed to the bibtex usage, latex does not write "bibdata" in the aux file (this is what triggers SCons to execute the bibtex/biber command).

== Olivier