[Scons-users] how to get bbl output of pdflatex?

[Managan, Rob]

Hi David,

You seem to have found that while scons how to clean what it produces (scons –c)  but at this time we consider the .bbl file a side effect of building the target .dvi or .pdf file. That means the .bbl file is not a target and if the .pdf is already built then there is no reason to regenerate it.

So yes, the tool was set up without thought to side effect files being removed by hand. If you did a scons –c then all is well. Can you elaborate on why you would have a "rm foo.bbl" in the sequence of things that happens to the files?

I have never used the CacheDir command so I am not familiar with that part of the question.

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On 9/11/13 2:43 PM, "David Roundy" <roundyd at physics.oregonstate.edu<mailto:roundyd at physics.oregonstate.edu>> wrote:

Hi Dirk,

I can reproduce the error using your code with the following sequence:

scons # works fine
rm foo.bbl
scons # fails

Error message:

scons: Reading SConscript files ...
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
tar -c -f arxiv.tar.gz foo.bbl foo.ltx
tar: foo.bbl: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
scons: *** [arxiv.tar.gz] Error 2
scons: building terminated because of errors.

I could also reproduce a slightly different error by adding

import os
CacheDir(os.environ['HOME'] + '/.cache/scons')

to the beginning of the SConstruct file, and then running

scons -c # clear out everything
scons # works fine, runs latex
scons -c # clear it out again
scons # fails, with puzzling error message, after pulling foo.pdf out of the cache

Error message:

scons: Reading SConscript files ...
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
Retrieved `foo.pdf' from cache
scons: done building targets.

scons: *** Found dependency cycle(s):
  Internal Error: no cycle found for node arxiv.tar.gz (<SCons.Node.FS.File object at 0x2045bd0>) in state pending


So your script doesn't seem to me to work very well, precisely because there is no rule for generating the bbl file.

David


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de<mailto:tshortik at gmx.de>> wrote:
Hi David,

please find a simple example attached, which seems to work fine on my side. I couldn't reproduce the error you reported with it, so maybe it helps if you compare the files to your original sources.

Best regards,

Dirk


On 07.09.2013 15:37, David Roundy wrote:
Hi all,

I'm running into a bit of a challenge using the pdflatex builder.  This builds a pdf file just fine:

env.PDF(target = 'paper.pdf', source = 'paper.tex')

The tricky bit is that in order to submit to a journal (or http://arxiv.org), I need the bbl file that is produced.  Of course, I could do this manually by typing bibtex, but the point of scons (and before that make) is to automate and document the process.

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