Re: texi2dvi -o dir/file.dvi creates leftover file.dvi in pwd

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Karl,

* Karl Berry wrote on Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:37:10AM CET:
> 
>     sometimes (seemingly when tex is run several times) creates a leftover
> 
> Have you found a reproducible (or even probabilistic :) way to make it
> happen?

Have up to date Autoconf and Automake installed.

  cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/libtool co libtool
  cd libtool
  reconfdirs=". libltdl" ./bootstrap
  cd ..
  mkdir build
  cd build
  ../libtool/configure -C
  make dvi
  test -f libtool.dvi

make calls

  TEXINPUTS="../libtool/libltdl/config:$TEXINPUTS" \
  MAKEINFO='/bin/sh /tmp/libtool/libltdl/config/missing --run makeinfo   -I doc 
-I ../libtool/doc' \
  texi2dvi -o doc/libtool.dvi `test -f 'doc/libtool.texi' || echo 
'../libtool/'`doc/libtool.texi

If I then
  rm libtool.dvi doc/libtool.dvi
  make dvi

then libtool.dvi is not created.  But a `make clean dvi' will do the
trick again.

BTW, my the bug seems older than I first mentioned, I could reproduce
this with "texi2dvi (GNU Texinfo 4.8) 1.34", too.

Thanks,
Ralf