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

Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu.org
Mon Jan 24 17:27:31 CET 2011


>  > Attached.  Obviously, `..' doesn't get expanded (the shell
>  > doesn't do this), and kpathsea tries to open it literally.
> 
> That's correct because .. is not a variable which can be expanded.
> It's a directory which exists physically on your file system.

Ah, ok.  I'm not acquainted with these details...


    Werner


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