Bug#666572: bibtex2html: FTBFS: I couldn't open file name `/tmp/bib2htmldb4a1e.blg'

[Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr>]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 09:42:21PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on
> amd64.

> > Reading test.bib...ok (3 entries).
> > calling BibTeX...
> > bibtex: Not writing to /tmp/bib2htmldb4a1e.blg (openout_any = p).
> > I couldn't open file name `/tmp/bib2htmldb4a1e.blg'
> > error 1 while running bibtex
> > make[2]: *** [test-byte] Error 1

there seems to be a regression in the behaviour of bibtex where it refuses
to create files outside of the current directory. See for instance [1].
I'll check with the texlive maintainers whether this was intentional on
their part.

-Ralf.

[1] http://tug.org/pipermail/tlbuild/2010q1/001305.html