[tex-live] Location of recorder file

[Philipp Stephani]

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> Von: Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp>
> An: Philipp Stephani <st_philipp at yahoo.de>
> CC: tex-live at tug.org
> Gesendet: Montag, den 27. September 2010, 13:57:33 Uhr
> Betreff: Re: [tex-live] Location of recorder file
> 
> Hi Philipp,
> 
> > pdflatex --recorder --output-directory=../b  '\documentclass{minimal}\csname 
>@@end\endcsname'
> > 
> > creates  minimal.fls in the current directory, and minimal.log in the output 
>directory. 
>
> 
> On windows,
> pdflatex --recorder --output-directory=../b  \documentclass{minimal}\csname 
>@@end\endcsname
> 
> creates ../b/minimal.log  and ../b/pdflatex<proc-id>.fls.
> Current directory is empty.
> 
> >  pdftex --recorder --output-directory=../b '\end'
> > 
> > creates  texput.fls in the current directory. 
> 
> On windows
> pdftex --recorder  --output-directory=../b \end
> 
> creates ../b/texput.log and  ../b/pdflatex<proc-id>.fls.

pdflatex or pdftex?

> Current directory is empty.

Interesting. I've tested my commands on both Mac OS X x86-64 and Linux x86-64, 
with the results as described. Seems as if at least some of the 64-bit engines 
on Unix contain the same bug (replacing "pdf" by "xe" doesn't change anything).

lualatex --recorder --output-directory=../b  '\documentclass{minimal}\csname 
@@end\endcsname'

also creates texput.fls in the current directory, in contradiction with the 
pdftex behavior.