[tex-k] bibtex implementation issue in TL2017?

[Akira Kakuto]

Dear Frank,

> the problem may be older than TL2017 ... it was working in 2013 or so 
> but I can't say for sure later. Not used that feature for a long time

Attached sx123740-a.pdf and sx123740-b.pdf
are created by

#!/bin/sh
latex sx123740
bibtex sx123740
latex sx123740
latex sx123740
dvipdfmx sx123740
mv sx123740.pdf sx123740-a.pdf

and

#!/bin/sh
latex sx123740
bibtex -min-crossrefs=3 sx123740
latex sx123740
latex sx123740
dvipdfmx sx123740
mv sx123740.pdf sx123740-b.pdf

respectively, by using bibtex in TeX Live 2017 for WIN32.
I don't know details of the problem. But at least
I have different outputs depending on the option
-min-crossrefs.
Similar in bibtex in TeX Live 2018/dev, and in bibtex8.

Thanks,
Akira
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