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[Akim Demaille]

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from  Akim Demaille  <address@hidden>

        texi2dvi: avoid creating invisible temporary files.
        * bin/texi2dvi ($t2ddir): Strip leading `./'.
        Call sed once.

Index: util/texi2dvi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/texinfo/texinfo/util/texi2dvi,v
retrieving revision 1.145
diff -u -u -r1.145 texi2dvi
--- util/texi2dvi 15 Apr 2009 14:41:50 -0000 1.145
+++ util/texi2dvi 15 Apr 2009 14:47:46 -0000
@@ -328,6 +328,7 @@
 Output format:
       --dvi     output a DVI file [default]
       --dvipdf  output a PDF file via DVI (using dvipdf)
+      --html    output an HTML file.  Use HeVeA for LaTeX files
       --info    output an Info file.  Use HeVeA for LaTeX files
   -p, --pdf     use pdftex or pdflatex for processing
       --ps      output a PDF file via DVI (using dvips)
@@ -1792,11 +1793,13 @@
   case $build_dir in
       '' | . ) t2ddir=$out_noext.t2d ;;
       *) # Avoid collisions between multiple occurrences of the same
-        # file.  The sed expression is fragile if the cwd has
-        # active characters.
+         # file, so depend on the output path.  Remove leading `./',
+         # at least to avoid creating a file starting with `.!', i.e.,
+         # an invisible file. The sed expression is fragile if the cwd
+         # has active characters.  Transform / into ! so that we don't
+         # need `mkdir -p'.  It might be something to reconsider.
         t2ddir=$build_dir/`echo "$out_dir_abs/$out_noext.t2d" |
-            sed "s,^$orig_pwd/,," |
-            sed 's,/,!,g'`
+            sed "s,^$orig_pwd/,,;s,^\./,,;s,/,!,g"`
   esac
   # Remove it at exit if clean mode.
   trap "cleanup" 0 1 2 15