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

Hi Ulrike,

Thank you for verifying this for me.  I'll get right on a bug report.

Best,
Chris

On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 8:39 PM, Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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