Re: Improving runbib disagnostics in case of error

Markus Hoenicka <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.refdb.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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