Re: -jobname broken?

I'm adapting a script that was piping latex generated on the fly to the
latex process.

Oh, I see the issue is the initial \relax.

Why is it that

latex --jobname=foo
\relax
\documentclass{article}\begin{document}abc\end{document}

creates texput.dvi in MikTeX, but foo.dvi in TeX Live?


On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Am Wed, 2 Sep 2015 16:48:47 -0400 schrieb Jason Gross:
>
> > Do you have an example of -jobname working?  Even if I put
> > \message{\jobname} later, or remove it alltogether, latex doesn't seem to
> > respect -jobname:
>
> Why are you testing this with echo-calls and pipes?
>
> latex --jobname=foo somelatexfile
>
> and
>
> latex --jobname=foo
> \documentclass{article}\begin{document}abc\end{document}
>
> works fine and create a foo.dvi
>
> --
> Ulrike Fischer
> http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
>
>
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