[tex-live] mpost for texlive2009

[Taco Hoekwater]

Herbert Voss wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> the option -output-directory does not work with the
> mpost from texlive 2009.
> 
> 
> voss at shania:~/texte/Buecher/LaTeX> mpost -tex=latex
> --output-directory=/tmp/ target/CP/04-02-5.mp
> warning: mpost: unimplemented option --output-directory=/tmp/
> This is MetaPost, version 1.203 (kpathsea version 5.0.0)
> (./target/CP/04-02-5.mpstatting target/CP/04-02-5.mp and
> target/CP/04-02-5.mpx
> statting target/CP/04-02-5.mp and target/CP/04-02-5.mpx
>  [1] )
> 1 output file written: 04-02-5.1
> Transcript written on 04-02-5.log.
> 
> with TeXLive2008 and mpost version 1.005 it worked

Even then, it only listened to the option partially
(temporary makempx files were never in that directory),
and for that reason the option is disabled for now.

Perhaps it will work again in 2010, but maybe not.

Best wishes,
Taco