ANNOUNCE: hs-bibutils-0.1

CSL Development
1

Hello,

I’m happy to announce the first release of hs-bibutils, the Haskell
bindings to Chris Putnam’s bibutils.[1]

Bibutils is a library and a set of bibliographic utilities to
interconvert between various bibliography database formats using a
common MODS-format XML intermediate.

hs-bibutils is meant to provide to citeproc-hs, and indirectly to
pandoc, the ability to parse all the bibliographic database formats
supported by bibutils.

citeproc-hs[2] is a Haskell implementation of the Citation Style
Language. It adds to pandoc a Bibtex like citation and bibliographic
formatting and generation facility.

DOWNLOADS

hs-bibutils can be downloaded from Hackage:

The project home page can be found here:

http://code.haskell.org/hs-bibutils/

INSTALLATION AND KNOWN ISSUES

bibutils builds, without installing it, a static library to be used to
compile the various converting utilities. But in order to use the
library with pandoc (or ghci) it is necessary to create and install a
shared object before building and installing hs-bibutils.

hs-bibutils provides a patch to the bibutils building scripts to
enable the shared object creation and installation. Alternatively a
patched version of the latest release of bibutils can be downloaded
from the project home page, where all the needed information for the
installation are provided:

http://code.haskell.org/hs-bibutils/#installation

I was able to test the patched building scripts only on a Linux
machine with a x86 system. Please report me any success or failure on
other systems/architectures.

BUG REPORTS

To submit bug reports you can either contact me directly or use the
citeproc-hs bug tracking system available at the following address:

http://code.google.com/p/citeproc-hs/issues

Hope you’ll enjoy,
Andrea Rossato

[1] http://www.scripps.edu/~cdputnam/software/bibutils/
[2] http://code.haskell.org/citeproc-hs/

2

Hi Andrea,

Hello,

I’m happy to announce the first release of hs-bibutils, the Haskell
bindings to Chris Putnam’s bibutils.[1]

Nice! I have a problem though. When I try to install your patched
bibutils, I get this error:

sudo make installlib
/usr/bin/ginstall -c lib/libbibutils.so /usr/local/lib
make: /usr/bin/ginstall: Command not found
make: *** [installlib] Error 127

Bruce

3

it seems like you do not have ginstall installed on your system.
Hopefully a simple

cp lib/libbibutils.so /usr/local/lib/

from the bibutils source code directory should be enough. You can also
copy the libbibutils.so object to some other directory where the file
can be found (LD_LIBRARY_PATH is used to search for shared libraries
on *nix systems).

Hope this helps,
Andrea

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sudo make installlib
/usr/bin/ginstall -c lib/libbibutils.so /usr/local/lib
make: /usr/bin/ginstall: Command not found
make: *** [installlib] Error 127

it seems like you do not have ginstall installed on your system.

Actually, it’s just not installed at /usr/bin:

which ginstall
/opt/local/bin/ginstall

But changing the prefix still results in this:

sudo make installlib
/usr/bin/ginstall -c lib/libbibutils.so /opt/local/lib
make: /usr/bin/ginstall: Command not found
make: *** [installlib] Error 127

Any ideas?

Bruce

5

you can edit Makefile_start and change

INSTALL = /usr/bin/ginstall -c
to
INSTALL = /opt/local/bin/ginstall -c

then

./configure

and

make installlibs

I hope this helps.
Andrea