[tex-live] [XeTeX] Problem with XeTeX's (and perhaps other binaries -- not investigated) handling of --output-directory

[Zdenek Wagner]

No, ./ is not a path specification, the normalization rules will remove it,
./foo.tex is the same as foo.tex. If you want to specify the path,
../Welcome/foo.tex will help because such a file is not below
dynamic-content.

Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz

2017-01-15 20:26 GMT+01:00 Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:

>
>
> Philip Taylor wrote:
>
> > But the defined behaviour for :
> >
> >       o xetex --output-directory=../dynamic-content
> E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/foo.tex
> >
> > must /surely/ be to process E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/foo.tex, not
> E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Dynamic-content/foo.tex, which is what it does;
>
> This statement was in error :
>
> >       o xetex --output-directory=../dynamic-content
> E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/foo.tex
>
> does indeed process E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/foo.tex as requested.
> Yet with
> the current working directory :
>
> > E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/foo.tex
>
> >       o xetex --output-directory=../dynamic-content ./foo.tex
>
> the file that is actually processed is
>
> > E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Dynamic-content/foo.tex
>
> In both cases, the path to the source directory has been specified, yet
> "E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/" is correctly honoured while "./" (for . =
> E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome) is not.  I remain completely confused by this
> seemingly aberrant and inconsistency behaviour.
>
> Philip Taylor
> --------
> E:\TeX\Projects\WBH\Welcome>xetex --output-directory=../dynamic-content
> E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/foo.tex
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99996 (TeX Live 2016/W32TeX)
> (preloaded format=xetex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (e:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/foo.tex This is the intended foo.tex
> (e:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/foo.aux This is the intended foo.aux) )
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on ../dynamic-content/foo.log.
>
> E:\TeX\Projects\WBH\Welcome>xetex --output-directory=../dynamic-content
> ./foo.tex
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99996 (TeX Live 2016/W32TeX)
> (preloaded format=xetex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (../dynamic-content/./foo.tex This is the unintended foo.tex
> (e:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/foo.aux This is the intended foo.aux) )
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on ../dynamic-content/foo.log.
>
> E:\TeX\Projects\WBH\Welcome>
>
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