Bug#123763: tetex-bin: Write output to somewhere besides current directory

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>
Subject: Bug#123763: tetex-bin: Write output to somewhere besides current directory
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:07:17 -0500

> I'd like to write the .toc, .dvi, .lot, .lof, etc. files to somewhere
> besides the current directory. Something like a -o option.
> 
> This would be nice for makefiles and other build systems that are
> designed to run out of source trees that are not to be scribbled in,
> such as CD-ROM, shared NFS mounts, etc.

You can do this with TEXMFOUTPUT as info says like;

  However, if the current directory is not writable, the main programs
(TeX, Metafont, MetaPost, and BibTeX) make an exception: if the
environment variable or config file value `TEXMFOUTPUT' is set (it is
not by default), output files are written to the directory specified.
This is useful when you are in some read-only distribution directory,
perhaps on a CD-ROM, and want to TeX some documentation, for example.

So we can close this BTS safely right now.

Best regards,		      2001.12.13

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
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