bundledoc is broken in ubuntu 18.04 ( due to perl 5.26 change regarding {)
Hello,
warning
A bit of a warning first: I am not a coder, and I apologize in advance
if this email does not conform to best practice in bug reporting / patch
proposing.
I think I found a bug (two?) in bundledoc and somehow fixed it (them).
perl is not a language I really master, so my fix is most probably ugly.
/warning
It seems that bundledoc (part of texlive-extra-utils) is broken in
Ubuntu 18.04 due to perl 5.26 deprecating the use of unescaped left
brace in regexpr.
Running /usr/bin/bundledoc on any trivial example results in the
following error:
bundledoc --config=texlive-unix.cfg --verbose --localonly --exclude=.fd
--exclude=.cfg --include="*.bib" --manifest="" hello.dep
BDBASE = '/tmp/bundledoc/hello'
Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <--
HERE in m/^\s*\*{ <-- HERE ([^}]*)}\s*{([^}]*)}\s*{([^}]*)}\s*$/ at
/data/bundledoc line 141, <DEPFILE> line 1.
This error can be fixed by replacing line 136:
my $braced = "{([^\}]*)}"; # Regular expression for a braced name
with
my $braced = "\\{([^\}]*)}"; # Regular expression for a braced name
Another issue seems to be related to temp file/folder creation.
It can be fixed by adding:
use File::Temp qw/ :POSIX /;
at the beginning of the file.
I tried to generate a patch to fix bundledoc (see attachment).
Do not hesitate to contact me if clarifications are needed.
Antoine
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> use File::Temp qw/ :POSIX /; # BOZ EDIT
>
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< my $braced = "{([^\}]*)}"; # Regular expression for a braced name
---
> # my $braced = "{([^\}]*)}"; # Regular expression for a braced name
> my $braced = "\\{([^\}]*)}"; # Regular expression for a braced name # BOZ EDIT
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