[tex-live] [mf] option `-output-directory' doesn't work

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Probably =~ does not expand to =$HOME.
> Please test
> echo ~
> and
> echo =~

Thanks.  I've just learned something.  In Bash, tilde expansion only
happens with variable assignments: In

  foo=~/bar

the tilde gets expanded, but in

  --foo=~/bar

this is not the case.

However, how can you explain the problem with relative paths?


    Werner