Re: Updated MiKTeX files, now miktex-xelatex.exe "-aux-directory=DIR" and "-output-directory=DIR" options suddenly conflict?

Am Mon, 2 Jan 2017 16:24:55 +1100 schrieb Christopher Weedall:

> Today, I updated (both as user and as admin) MiKTeX, which has a bunch of
> .exe file updates/removals.  Everything builds more or less properly, but
> the -aux-directory option seems to have just completely stopped working
> when -output-directory is present.  It seems -output-directory now acts
> like -aux-directory **AND** overrides it.

I never us the redirection options, so I can tell you if something
has changed. But I made some tests with pdflatex (it seems to do the
same as xelatex) and the results are a bit odd:

--aux-directory=auxfiles --synctex=1 : everything in auxfiles

--output-direct=outfiles --synctex=1 : everything in outfiles

--output-directory=outfiles --aux-directory=auxfiles --synctex=1 :
aux and log in outfiles, pdf and synctex.gz in auxfiles

--aux-directory=auxfiles --output-directory=outfiles --synctex=1:
everything in outfiles

1 and 2 could be a sensible choice (people using only one of the
option perhaps want them to affect everything), but I would more
expect them to affect only aux/log and pdf/synctex.gz.  

3 looks wrong -- I would have expected aux and log in auxfiles and
pdf and synctex in outfiles -- but at least it splits the files in
two folders. 

4 looks completly wrong as the --aux-directory setting is ignored. 

You could probably use 3 as a work around, but imho you should make
a bug report. https://sourceforge.net/p/miktex/bugs/?source=navbar


-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/


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