auctex: add biber variant

[seanfarley (Sean Farley)]

This is a major update to the auctex port. I've been keeping track and getting incremental updates from their cvs repo into mercurial here:

​https://bitbucket.org/seanfarley/auctex

This update also includes a new variant based on biber:

​http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/forums/forum/824416/topic/4716925

[seanfarley (Sean Farley)]

auctex portfile

[seanfarley (Sean Farley)]

biber variant patch

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Cc'ing port's maintainer.

We'd usually want to see a unified diff of the Portfile instead of a complete new Portfile to make it easier to evaluate your changes.

Usually we want to update to stable versions of software. Is there a new stable version of auctex scheduled to be released in the foreseeable future?

I'm worried about the "make; make; make" in the build phase. That makes it sound like there's a parallel build failure, in which case we'd want to "use_parallel_build no" instead, but I did not test whether that would work in this case.

Running ./autogen.sh implies that you should be adding build dependencies on autoconf, automake, and/or libtool (as MacPorts would do if you were using "use_autoconf yes").

[seanfarley (Sean Farley)]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

Cc'ing port's maintainer.

Aha, thanks!

We'd usually want to see a unified diff of the Portfile instead of a complete new Portfile to make it easier to evaluate your changes.

Fair enough; I'll send that for future updates.

Usually we want to update to stable versions of software. Is there a new stable version of auctex scheduled to be released in the foreseeable future?

There's hasn't been a stable release in the past two years; nor does there ever seem to be one. But, to be honest, I can't find the original reason for using the bleeding edge version.

I'm worried about the "make; make; make" in the build phase. That makes it sound like there's a parallel build failure, in which case we'd want to "use_parallel_build no" instead, but I did not test whether that would work in this case.

Yes, I am not happy about that either (and embarrassingly, an old artifact left in the Portfile). After some digging, it's not because of using a parallel make but rather because of using a CVS checkout.

Running ./autogen.sh implies that you should be adding build dependencies on autoconf, automake, and/or libtool (as MacPorts would do if you were using "use_autoconf yes").

Ack, yes, good catch. I'm going to rollback to 11.86 and apply the biber patches (which are a new feature); then rebuild and resubmit the patch.

[seanfarley (Sean Farley)]

Well, I don't remember why I initially needed the CVS version of auctex; so for now I've reverted back to 11.86. The patch I just added to this ticket adds a new variant, +biber, based of of this:

​http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/forums/forum/824416/topic/4716925

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

Cc Me!

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Please don't mix whitespace changes with functional changes. If you want to make whitespace changes as well, submit them as a separate patch.

[seanfarley (Sean Farley)]

clean up whitespace

[seanfarley (Sean Farley)]

add biber variant

[seanfarley (Sean Farley)]

Replying to jmr@…:

Please don't mix whitespace changes with functional changes. If you want to make whitespace changes as well, submit them as a separate patch.

Finally got around to fixing the patches. They are both attached to this ticket now. Let me know if anything else needs to be fixed!

[kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)]

I just updated auctex to 11.91 - if you want to generate another patch I can commit.