Uwe Brauer <[email protected]> writes: >>>> "AH" == Al Haji-Ali <[email protected]> writes: > >> Hello Uwe, >> On 29/12/2025, Uwe Brauer wrote: >>> However if TeX-output-dir is set to "build" >>> >>> Then the backend=biber works, but backend=bibtex gives the >>> following error when running bibtex >> Yes, indeed. > >> The fix is easy: just add the output directory to BIBINPUTS and >> TEXINPUTS. For example > >> BIBINPUTS=build:. >> TEXINPUTS=build:.
That is wrong. It should be without the period, to let web2c splice in the defaults at the empty point: BIBINPUTS=build: TEXINPUTS=build: In a shell script, you would splice in any possible previous value, so BIBINPUTS="build:$BIBINPUTS" TEXINPUTS="build:$TEXINPUTS" -- David Kastrup
