Bug#347992: tetex-base: mptopdf fails when src file is not in current dir

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 16.01.06 Sanjoy Mahajan (sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk) wrote:

Hi,

> Hans Hagen wrote to me to say that he's applied the patch to his
> version (copy of my reply below).  It was a bad design decision for
> Tex and friends to leave output files in the current directory
> rather than in the directory of the source file.
> 
Hmm, fine. So he acknowledged the patch. I myself don't speak perl and
are not able to do so.

> > ok, i patched it as you submitted (no time to test now) ; I assume that 
> > File::Basename is always present.
> 
> It should be.  The man entry for File::Basename (perl v5.8.7 on linux
> i386 here) says:
> 
> That list pretty much covers every system in world.
> 
... which has the perl packages installed. This is what we Debian
teTeX maintainers have to care about.

Thanks,
  Hilmar
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