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

[Philip Taylor]

Zdenek Wagner wrote:

> 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.

What are "the normalisation rules", Zdeněk ?
** Phil.