[tex-k] Problem with latxmk

[Norbert Preining]

Late in chiming in, but ..

On Fri, 10 May 2024, Karl Berry wrote:
> No argument, but it also seems to me that, in principle, it's
> unpleasantly surprising for *anything* to be written outside of
> --output-directory when it's specified.
> 
> However, since I see now that this is how things behaved for the years
> prior to 2024, with the mktexpk run succeeding and using its usual
> destdir, I yield.  I'll put in the unset TEXMF_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY when I
> have a chance.

I think this is the correct behavior. I agree with the interpretation
that --output-directory should not be used for internally generated
files. I would expect that for example
	lualatex --output-directory ...
does **not** write generated .lua files for fonts in output directory,
but into the usual cache directory.

Best regards

Norbert

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