Python BibTex

This python extension contains a BibTeX parser and a simple binding to the GNU Recode library. They are intended to be used with pybliographer.

This module requires the following libraries to be installed:

• Glib-2.x (and its development headers)
• GNU Recode 3.5 (and its development headers)

Compilation

Run the following command:

   python setup.py build

For additional options:

   python setup.py build --help

Installation

   python setup.py install

For additional options:

   python setup.py install --help

Troubleshooting

Here are listed some common problems while building the python-bibtex module.

Glib-2.0 is not in a standard place

Ensure that the path to glib-2.0.pc from your installation is available in the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

GNU Recode is not in a standard place

To build, run:

    python setup.py build_ext -I /path/to/recode/include -L /path/to/recode/lib

The installation fails with one of the following errors:

"the _recode module is broken."

This means that you are using an inadequate version of GNU Recode. You need to use either Recode 3.5, or Recode 3.6 with some extra patches.

The stock version of Recode 3.6 from any GNU mirror DOES NOT WORK.

"the recode library is probably broken."

This means that GNU Recode has been compiled with a buggy version of gcc (gcc-3.3.2 seems to trigger this problem). You can recompile recode with the following option for configure:

       CFLAGS=-g ./configure --prefix=...