[Bug 510946] [NEW] texexec can't take a target output file

[gwern]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: context

While adding PDF generation to Gitit, which shells out to texexec, I
wanted to have the generation run on a temporary *.tex file in a
temporary directory in /tmp. (Since apparently one cannot feed in the
context source on standard in and get the PDF on standard out, as would
be ideal.)

However, texexec insisted on generating ./foo.pdf from /tmp/random-
name/foo.tex! One might think that the --result option might fix this,
but turns out a command like 'texexec --result=/tmp/random-name/ /tmp
/random-name/foo.tex' only results in the creation of './random-name-
foo.tex'. This is not what I had expected when I had added the trailing
slash. Nor can one do a command like 'texexec /tmp/foo/bar.tex
/tmp/foo/bar.pdf', nor does there seem to be any other option to get
sane behavior - the PDF always goes in ./.

(I had to work around this by making gitit cd to the /tmp, and then cd
back. Very annoying.)

** Affects: context (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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texexec can't take a target output file
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/510946
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