Re: [AUCTeX] TeXLive2011 Biber environment problem

[Ivan Andrus]

On Aug 17, 2011, at 9:37 PM, Haines Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 03:00:58PM +0200, Ivan Andrus wrote:
> 
>> If it works from the command line, but not from AUCTeX the 
>> difference might be the environment variables (especially if you 
>> started Emacs from a desktop shortcut instead of the command line or 
>> after updating .bashrc).  You can set them with `setenv':
>> 
>> (setenv "BIBINPUTS" (concat "/home/haines/jabref:" (getenv 
>> "BIBINPUTS")))
> 
> I don't have a desktop, and so no icon shortcuts. I start emacs from a 
> terminal.

Okay, so that's not the problem.

> I dont understand. If I already have this environment:
> 
>  $ echo $BIBINPUTS
>  /home/haines/jabref:
> 
> so why do I have to redefine it by adding another statement in my 
> ~/.bashrc?  I already have there: 
> BIBINPUTS=/home/haines/jabref:$BIBINPUTS; export BIBINPUTS.

It would be in your .emacs, but that's not the problem based on below.  
Unfortunately, I can't help you with that part, though it looks like Guilhem 
has.

-Ivan

>> If it doesn't work from the command line, then it's almost certainly 
>> not related to AUCTeX and this wouldn't be a good place to ask.
> 
> I understand, but not sure how to interpret the result: 
> 
>  $ biber test.tex
>  INFO - This is biber 0.9.4
>  INFO - Logfile is 'test.tex.blg'
>  FATAL - Cannot find control file 'test.tex.bcf'! - did you pass the 
>        "backend=biber" option to BibLaTeX?
> 
> There is no test.tex.bcf file. 
> 
>  $ latex backend=biber test.tex
>  This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.3-1.40.12 (TeX Live 2011)
>   restricted \write18 enabled.
>  entering extended mode
>  ! I can't find file `backend=biber'.
>  <*> backend=biber 
>                  test.tex
> 
> I have no biblatex command to which I might pass something:
> 
>  $ which biblatex
> 
>  $ which latex
>  /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux/latex
> 
>  $ which biber
>  /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux/biber
> 
>  $ which bibtex
>  /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux/bibtex
> 
> Haines
> 
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