Author: ken
Date: Tue Jun 30 14:09:09 2015
New Revision: 16195
Log:
Use the released tarball for biblatex-biber-2.1.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
trunk/BOOK/packages.ent
trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/biber.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Tue Jun 30 13:10:44
2015 (r16194)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Tue Jun 30 14:09:09
2015 (r16195)
@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@
<para>June 30th, 2015</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[ken] - Update to released version of blblatex-biber-2.1. Fixes
+ <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;6610">#6610</ulink>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[bdubbs] - Add opencv (Open Computer Vision).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/packages.ent
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/packages.ent Tue Jun 30 13:10:44 2015 (r16194)
+++ trunk/BOOK/packages.ent Tue Jun 30 14:09:09 2015 (r16195)
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@
in asymptote, biber and xindy -->
<!ENTITY texlive-year "2015">
<!ENTITY asymptote-version "2.35">
-<!ENTITY biber-version "2.1a">
+<!ENTITY biber-version "2.1">
<!ENTITY biblatex-version "3.0">
<!ENTITY xindy-version "2.5.1">
Modified: trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/biber.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/biber.xml Tue Jun 30 13:10:44 2015
(r16194)
+++ trunk/BOOK/pst/typesetting/biber.xml Tue Jun 30 14:09:09 2015
(r16195)
@@ -4,17 +4,13 @@
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
- <!-- please keep the alternative http, with one of them commented, so that
- a tarball can always be downloaded by a user even if anduin is not yet
updated -->
- <!ENTITY biber-download-http
"&sources-anduin-http;/b/biblatex-biber-&biber-version;.tar.xz">
- <!-- please edit this one to point to wherever you uploaded \-\->
- <!ENTITY biber-download-http
"http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/tmp/biblatex-biber-&biber-version;.tar.xz";>
-->
- <!ENTITY biber-download-ftp
"&sources-anduin-ftp;/b/biblatex-biber-&biber-version;.tar.xz">
- <!ENTITY biber-md5sum "bf5191099887a652105ee9bf08bcf958">
- <!ENTITY biber-size "1.4 MB">
+ <!ENTITY biber-download-http
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/biblatex-biber/&biber-version;/biblatex-biber.tar.gz";>
+ <!ENTITY biber-download-ftp " ">
+ <!ENTITY biber-md5sum "c46979acce3befdb3431ffadcc81bdf3">
+ <!ENTITY biber-size "2.0 MB">
<!-- buildsize includes the installed biblatex -->
- <!ENTITY biber-buildsize "40 MB">
- <!ENTITY biber-time "less than 0.1 SBU (0.5 SBU to run the
tests)">
+ <!ENTITY biber-buildsize "37 MB">
+ <!ENTITY biber-time "less than 0.1 SBU (0.6 SBU to run the
tests)">
<!ENTITY biblatex-download-http
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex/files/biblatex-&biblatex-version;/biblatex-&biblatex-version;.tds.tgz";>
<!ENTITY biblatex-download-ftp "">
@@ -41,12 +37,9 @@
<title>Introduction to biber</title>
<para>Biber is a BibTeX replacement for users of biblatex, written in
- <application>Perl</application>. Upstream prefers to provide binaries
- and no longer offers a source tarball, so that has been taken from the
- git tree : see the file <filename>Fixes-from-git</filename> to see
- which changes (since 2.1 was tagged) have been included.</para>
+ <application>Perl</application>, with full Unicode support.</para>
- &gcc5_checked;
+ &lfs77_checked; &gcc5_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
@@ -70,15 +63,20 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Required Additional Download</bridgehead>
-
- <para>The corresponding version of <application>biblatex</application> is
- a separate project - the tds version is pre-packaged for untarring into
- the <filename class="directory">texmf-dist</filename> directory.</para>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Required Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
- <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&biblatex-download-http;"/></para>
+ <para>
+ Required patch:
+ <ulink
url="&patch-root;/biblatex-biber-&biber-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch"/>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The corresponding version of <application>biblatex</application> is
+ a separate project - the tds tarball is pre-packaged for untarring into
+ the <filename class="directory">texmf-dist</filename> directory.
+ Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&biblatex-download-http;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download MD5 sum: &biblatex-md5sum;</para>
@@ -107,7 +105,10 @@
<xref linkend="perl-log-log4perl"/>
<xref linkend="perl-lwp"/>
<xref linkend="perl-list-allutils"/>
- <!-- perl-module-build is pulled in by perl-text-bibtex -->
+ <!-- this is pulled in by perl-text-bibtex, but mention it explicitly
+ so that the note on automatically installing missing dependencies makes
+ more sense -->
+ <xref linkend="perl-module-build"/>
<xref linkend="perl-regexp-common"/>
<xref linkend="perl-text-bibtex"/>
<xref linkend="perl-text-roman"/>
@@ -134,11 +135,32 @@
<note>
<para>
+ Although the tarball name is unversioned, it will untar to a
+ correctly-versioned biblatex-biber-&biber-version; directory.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
It is possible to install (all) missing dependencies automatically.
- Begin by running <command>perl ./Build.PL</command> and then when it
+ From <application>perl-5.22.0</application> onwards,
+ <xref linkend="perl-module-build"/> is no longer part of
+ the core distribution. To automatically install the remaining perl
+ dependencies you will need to install that first.
+ You can then run <command>perl ./Build.PL</command> and when it
prompts you, become the root user and run
<command>./Build installdeps</command>
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ If you run <command>./Build.PL</command> under versions of
+ <application>perl</application> after 5.20.2 it will tell you that the
+ version of <application>Unicode::Normalize</application> is too
+ <emphasis>new</emphasis>. In fact, the new version works, but is now
+ pure perl and takes longer to run : <emphasis>much</emphasis> longer
+ if you have a large bibliography. You can find the old version at
<ulink
+
url="http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/S/SA/SADAHIRO/Unicode-Normalize-1.17.tar.gz"/>
+ and use the standard <xref linkend="perl-standard-install"/>
+ to install it if you wish. Further details are in the User Notes.
+ </para>
</note>
<para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
@@ -150,12 +172,19 @@
<title>Installation of Biber</title>
<para>Install <application>Biber</application> by running the following
- commands:</para>
+ commands (patching the read-only files will produce warnings):</para>
-<screen><userinput>perl ./Build.PL &&
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i
../biblate-biber-&biber-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch &&
+sed -i 's/ 44/ 43/' t/bcfvalidation.t &&
+perl ./Build.PL &&
./Build</userinput></screen>
- <para>To test the results, enter: <command>./Build test</command></para>
+ <para>To test the results, enter: <command>./Build test</command> - you
will
+ require the en_GB.UTF-8 and sv_SE.UTF-8 locales. Two tests (and two
subtests)
+ will fail : for speed the tests use system locales instead of the default
+ Unicode::Collation algorithm, and some minor details of the locales in OSX
+ (where development takes place) differ from those in
+ <application>glibc</application></para>
<para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
user:</para>
@@ -169,6 +198,19 @@
<title>Command Explanations</title>
<para>
+ <parameter>patch -Np1 -i
+ ../biblate-biber-&biber-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch</parameter>:
+ <application>perl-5.22</application> has become more strict about
+ what needs to be escaped.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <parameter>sed -i 's/ 44/ 43/' t/bcfvalidation.t</parameter>: Although
+ the git master branch has 44 pairs of files for this test, the shipped
+ tarball only contains 43. The sed prevents it failing.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
<parameter>tar -xf biblatex-&biblatex-version;a.tds.tar.gz -C
/opt/texlive/&texlive-year;/texmf-dist</parameter>:
this installs the new <application>biblatex</application> files over
those
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