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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2023-10-10 22:01:41 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2023-10-10 22:01:41 +0000
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support new envvar TEXMF_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY
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This file records noteworthy changes. (Public domain.)
See also */NEWS, */ChangeLog, etc.
+* For all engines: If the --output-directory option is given, its value
+ is saved in the enviroment variable TEXMF_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY, for the
+ benefit of subprograms (called with \write18).
+
+ Furthermore, if the --output-directory option is not given, but
+ the TEXMF_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY environment variable is set, that is used
+ for all output files, as if it had been the value given to the
+ --output-directory option. More details:
+ https://tug.org/texinfohtml/web2c.html#Output-file-location
+
2023 (for TeX Live 2023, 9 March 2023)