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

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Mon Jan 24 13:19:12 CET 2011


2011/1/24 Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp>:
> Dear Werner,
>
>> [Metafont 2.718281 (TeX Live 2010)
>>  kpathsea version 6.0.0]
>>
>> 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,
> Akira
>
>



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