[metapost] mpost(1) doesn't honor -output-directory.

[Pétiard François]

Michaël Cadilhac a écrit le 28/08/2007 18:13 :
> Pétiard François <petiard.francois at free.fr> writes:
> 
>> Michaël Cadilhac a écrit le 28/08/2007 17:00 :
>>> Hi folk!
>>>
>>>
>>> For some reason I just haven't the time to dig for, mpost doesn't
>>> respect its promise to honor -output-directory. It just doesn't
>>> understand the option.
>>>
>>> mpost: unrecognized option `-output-directory=/tmp/view-mpa8PGTE'
>>> mpost: unrecognized option `-output-directory'
>>>
>>> And the same with double-dash.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any bugfix :-)
>> Which are your distribution ?
> 
> Gosh, I forgot to mention the most relevant infos !
> 
> mpost from the foundry,
> $ mpost -v
> MetaPost 1.000 (Web2C 7.5.5)
> kpathsea version 3.5.5
> Copyright 2005 AT&T Bell Laboratories.
> Kpathsea is copyright 2005 Karl Berry and Olaf Weber.
> There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
> covered by the terms of both the MetaPost copyright and
> the Lesser GNU General Public License.
> For more information about these matters, see the file
> named COPYING and the MetaPost source.
> Primary author of MetaPost: John Hobby.
> Current maintainer of MetaPost: Taco Hoekwater.
> Kpathsea written by Karl Berry, Olaf Weber, and others.
> 
> and teTeX version 3.0_p1, on Gentoo.
> 

Sorry, but I have a MiKTeX distribution (with MetaPost 1.000 too).
On my computer, the command line :

mpost -output-directory=./temp

is working (temp is a sub-directory of the main directory)

F. Pétiard

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