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rubber package

multiple bibliographies (chapterbib) not supported

Bug #626233 reported by Joris Keizer on 2010-08-29

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Rubber	Confirmed	Wishlist	Unassigned
	rubber (Debian)	Confirmed	Unknown	debbugs #458993

Bug Description

Rubber doesn't work on latex documents that use multiple bibliographies via chapterbib.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-10-15

Changed in rubber (Debian):
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

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Paul Natsuo Kishimoto (khaeru) wrote on 2011-02-19:

From http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458993 Edit (2.3 KiB, text/plain)

The Debian bug contains the attached patch (not tested).

Changed in rubber:
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

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Hilmar Preusse (hille42) wrote on 2015-11-12:

Bug still present in v1.3. Patch does not apply any more.

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Benedict Lee (benedictleejh) wrote on 2018-11-02:

After looking through the code, it seems that rubber is not correctly respecting the paths from Latex. Furthermore, because it sets BIBINPUTS and BSTINPUTS when dealing with Bibtex, there's an additional bug where if the directive bibtex.path is set, then Bibtex can no longer find bib files in the original directory.

The path bug for Bibtex can be easily fixed by appending a : to the end of the BIBINPUTS and BSTINPUTS path, which allows Bibtex to attempt to search the default paths (http://compgroups.net/comp.text.tex/bibtex-and-path-to-bib-file/1908161).

For rubber itself to find the system bib and bst files, kpsepath from Kpathsea (https://tug.org/texinfohtml/kpathsea.html#Path-searching, https://linux.die.net/man/1/kpsepath) can be used to get the system search paths, with some processing necessary to convert kpsepath's output into usable system paths.