Hi Johannes, On Tue Dec 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM CET, Johannes Thyssen Tishman wrote: > 2025-11-24T16:13:44+0100 Marco van Hulten <[email protected]>: >> Hello, >> >> Attached is a new port for manipulating BibTeX entries. I have used it >> for the last decade or so for sanatising BibTeX entries (typically, for >> any newly downloaded work) and redirecting this to my BibTeX database. >> Sometimes I use it to search the database. >> >> For a more complete description of its functionality, see its homepage: >> >> https://www.gerd-neugebauer.de/software/TeX/BibTool/en/ >> >> I'd be happy to maintain this. >> >> Marco > > Hi Marco, > > Thanks for working on this. I haven't tested bibtool yet since I have > some initial remarks about the port: > > - The trailing en/ needs to be removed from SITES to fetch the sources. > > - I'd prefer if HOMEPAGE pointed to the english version of the website, > i.e., please add the trailing en/ here. I assume this was your initial > intention and accidentally switched it with SITES? With this, you can > do SITES = ${HOMEPAGE:S|en/$||}.
Yes, exactly. > - The kpathsea library is picked up at configure time if found. The > install documentation (see install.tex) mentions that the usage of > this library is experimental and that it is only used to search for > BibTeX files. If you don't need it, maybe we could disable it with > CONFIGURE_ARGS = --without-kpathsea, so as to avoid having > print/texlive/base as a build dependency? And as test dependency. Doing this results in two more tests begin (successfully) executed that I suppose are there as substitutes for functionality kpathsea would provide. In any case, all test still succeed and how I typically use BibTool also still works, so I'm fine with dropping this dependency. > - Why is print/texlive/base needed as a runtime dependency? This was needed for both test and run, because otherwise warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these directories: /usr/local/share/texmf-dist/web2c. but we can leave out the kpathsea dependency, which I do now. > - Bibtool depends on an old version of the GNU Regular Expression > Library that it bundles. I don't know if we could pull this from base > or a port. I'd wait for feedback on this. > > - Lots of warnings at build time? Can anything be done about this? > > I'll try to take another look later if I find some time. Thank you! I did not address the last two (harder) issues. New tarball attached. Marco
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