Can't define apa as bibstyle "Undefined control sequence. <argument> \mkbibdateapalongextra"

Question

I have to write a report using APA style bibliography, using this minimal example:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[backend=biber,
bibstyle=apa,
]{biblatex}

\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
  @book{Knu86,
    author = {Knuth, Donald E.},
    year = {1986},
    title = {The \TeX book},
  }
\end{filecontents*}

\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}

\cite{*}

\printbibliography

\end{document}

Doesn't end processing, the bibliography is never printed, instead:

Package biblatex Info: No input encoding detected.
(biblatex)             Assuming 'ascii'.
Package biblatex Info: Automatic encoding selection.
(biblatex)             Assuming data encoding 'ascii'.
\openout3 = `test.bcf'.

Package biblatex Info: Trying to load bibliographic data...
Package biblatex Info: ... file 'test.bbl' found.
(./test.bbl)
Package biblatex Info: Reference section=0 on input line 19.
Package biblatex Info: Reference segment=0 on input line 19.


LaTeX Warning: Citation '*' on page 1 undefined on input line 21.

! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> \mkbibdateapalongextra 
                                  {year}{month}{day}\iffieldundef {endyear}{...
l.24 

is found in the log file. If I use citestyle, this error doesn't appear. style produces the same problem. This answer makes allusion that I need to define just one language in babel, but using language=american as recommended produce the same result.

Answer 1

After having re-read again the manual, I saw in the "Use" section:

Specify the style in the usual way when loading BibLATEX. If you are using babel:

\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=apa]{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{american}{american-apa}

I wasn't using the \DeclareLanguageMapping command that matched my babel preferences. Using

\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage{url}

\usepackage[backend=biber,
sorting=none,
citestyle=numeric,
url=true,
backref=true,
bibstyle=apa
]
{biblatex}
\DeclareLanguageMapping{spanish}{spanish-apa}

Fixed the issue. Must make sure that babel's and DeclareLanguageMapping languages matches, and that <texmf>/tex/latex/biblatex/lbx/<language>-apa.lbx has the language present.