[Scons-users] Re - scons runs biber every time pdflatex compiles

[Managan, Rob]

Hi Abid,

Turns out I never added the test to see if the .bcf file had changed. I
will generate a pull request to fix this in a few days after I check the
bibtex route and make sure I don¹t mess it up!

Rob




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On 5/11/16, 8:13 AM, "Managan, Rob" <managan1 at llnl.gov> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>As the person who added support for biber I agree with your sentiments
>below. The intent was that on a clean set of files that biber be run until
>the files it depends on stop changing. Therefore when you rebuild the
>document it should only be run when there are changes that affect the
>input files for biber. This was done around scons v2.1. In the last
>several years that information may have changed or I may never have gotten
>it correct in the first place.
>
>I will try to take a look when I get some time.
>
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>Rob ManaganWCI/DP Division  LLNL
>P.O. Box 808, L-095
>Livermore, CA  94551-0808
>Email: managan1 at llnl.gov
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>
>Phone: 925-423-0903         FAX:   925-422-3389
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>
>
>
>On 5/11/16, 3:15 AM, "Scons-users on behalf of Abid H. Mujtaba"
><scons-users-bounces at scons.org on behalf of abid.naqvi83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>snip
>
>>
>>In short: For scons to fulfill its goal as an efficient and complete
>>latex build system it needs to analyze both the 'pdflatex' output
>>(looking for a request to run 'biber') and any changes to .bib and run
>>'biber' only if one of these two things happen. Running biber every
>>single time pdflatex is called is unacceptable.
>>
>>- Abid H. Mujtaba
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