[luatex] kpse and --output-directory

[Taco Hoekwater]

Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 04:30:39PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>> Khaled Hosny wrote:
>>> Does the built-in kpse library look for files under the directory
>>> specified with --output-directory. It doesn't here, but I'm not
>>> sure if this a misconfiguration, a bug or a feature.
>> I doubt it is a misconfiguration on your part, but I have no idea
>> whether it is a bug or a feature, I am not that much of a kpathsea
>> user. Does kpsewhich find files in the output directory?
> 
> kpsewhich has no --output-directory option, but \input inputs them just
> fine.

Oh I see, \input and \read have special code to deal with
output-directory, this is not handled by kpathsea at all.

Best wishes,
Taco