Re: Improving runbib disagnostics in case of error
Markus Hoenicka <[email protected]>
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Olivier Berger <[email protected]> was heard to say: > Hi. > > I've tried and compile my bibliography after having upgraded to the > recent .deb packages, and apparently, the styles were no longer > retrieved. > > runbib's invocation of refdbib wasn't really provinding detailed error > diagnostics in order to help locate the issue... > I'm wondering what went wrong. If the style was missing or unreadable, you'd get the pretty obvious message: failed to access style data If the main database was entirely missing or unreadable, you should also get a message along the lines of: failed to connect to database server > May I suggest to add some echo log in case of an error during refdbib > invocation ? > This patch certainly doesn't hurt, but does it really provide a clue to the nature of the problem? I'd rather like to know why the refdbib error message was useless, or why it didn't show up. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka [email protected] (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") http://www.mhoenicka.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642