Re: texi2dvi: Honor -o

[Karl Berry]

    The recent change that detached --output from --clean no longer
    honors --output.

A minor problem :).  Thanks for the fix.

    we can't read the file while we compile

Which is totally standard behavior for TeX since forever, so I don't
feel too bad about it -- suboptimal though it is.

    xpdf and other xdvi don't die

My experience is that they don't die, they just say "corrupted file" and
let you reload when it's done.

    compile to an auxiliary output, and mv it only at the end, so that
    xpdf and other xdvi don't die on an incomplete file.  WDYT?  

Sounds ok, as long as the aux files get read during the process and
saved at the end ready for next time.  That was the whole point of
skipping the --clean.

    Do you know of any means to tell (pdf)tex to --output to another
    file?

An option --output-directory is supported at least in the current
version of web2c.  Don't know when it was added, and I've never actually
tried to use it.  If you want to experiment ...

Thanks,
karl