[tex-live] [mf] option `-output-directory' doesn't work
Werner LEMBERG
wl at gnu.org
Mon Jan 24 14:12:13 CET 2011
>>> As the title says: It seems that mf's `-output-directory' option is
>>> completely ignored. A bug?
>>
>> A test on win32:
>> mf-nowin --output-directory=e:/work2 "\mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; input cmr10"
>>
>> cmr10.600gf, cmr10.log and cmr10.tfm went to e:/work2 and the
>> current directory was empty.
>>
> Test on Linux (CentOS 5.3), x86_64
> mf --output-directory=/tmp "\mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; input cmr10"
> Output went to /tmp, no new files in the current directory
Thanks for testing. Using absolute paths works on my platform also.
However, using relative paths like `--output-directory=../build'
doesn't. In case this is intentional please improve the help message
of mf accordingly.
Werner
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