Re: Improving runbib disagnostics in case of error

Le lundi 30 octobre 2006 à 14:28 +0100, Markus Hoenicka a écrit :
> 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.
> 

I see... unfortunately, I didn't save the log of the session I'm
afraid :(

That's the problem when you think you're too smart to try and correct
problems by yourself instead of asking the maintainer first, maybe ;)

Thanks for caring.

Best regards,
-- 
Olivier BERGER <[email protected]>
Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF
INT Evry (http://www.int-evry.fr)
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