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

[Zdenek Wagner]

2011/1/24 Akira Kakuto <kakuto at fuk.kindai.ac.jp>:
> Dear Werner,
>
>> > I have done three more tests:
>> >  mf --output-directory=../tmp/mftest "\mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; input cmr10"
>> > works
>>
>> Interesting.  It fails for me, using bash 4.1.9.
>
> It works also on windows.
>
>> > mf --output-directory=~/tmp/mftest "\mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; input cmr10"
>> > This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (TeX Live 2010)
>> > ! I can't write on file `cmr10.log'.
>>
>> This fails for me also.
>
> Probably =~ does not expand to =$HOME.
> Please test
> echo ~
> and
> echo =~
>
My bash expands echo ~ but not echo =~

> Thanks,
> Akira
>
>



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