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A Makefile for LaTeX - drop it in, type make, and magic happens.
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Support for --output-directory #180

Closed shiblon closed 8 years ago

shiblon commented 8 years ago

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 167

It would be really useful this Makefile could (optionally) build in a different directory
than the working tree. I like to keep it clean to ease the interaction with a versioning
control system; I usually make a build/ subdirectory and use the --output-directory=build/
parameter to pdflatex.

It would be great if this Makefile could use such a system and also move the files
the Makefile itself generates to that directory.

Reported by ewal@pointpro.nl on 2012-11-27 13:14:43

shiblon commented 8 years ago 
This is a common request that is unfortunately not going to happen. Using subdirectories
with 'make' is really, really problematic, particularly with the way that we're using
it here.

Patches are always welcome for those that want to prove me wrong, but this would probably
be a *huge* undertaking, like "full rewrite" huge.

Reported by shiblon on 2012-11-27 13:18:56

shiblon commented 8 years ago 
Too bad. I'll give it a shot tonight, see what I can come up with.

Reported by ewal@pointpro.nl on 2012-11-27 13:26:30