Re: texi2dvi ignores -o under unclear circumstances.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Jack,

Jack Kelly writes:
> 
> I think I have found a bug with texi2dvi. It seems to manifest only
> when using -o to write the dvi to a subdirectory and when the .texi
> file has a sectioning command like @top. texi2dvi emits an identical
> copy of the dvi file in the current working directory.
> 
> I found a similar-sounding report from 2007:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-texinfo <at> gnu.org/msg03174.html (indeed,
> I found the problem in the same way: my `make distcheck ' failed
> because of extra .dvi files left about.)
> 
> Minimal example to reproduce this bug:

FWIW, I reported a similar bug a while ago, it got fixed in texinfo.
I cannot reproduce your bug with the current texinfo.

> Is there any other useful information I can provide?

Yes: if this still occurs with current texinfo, then please provide
a recipe to reproduce that.

Thanks!
Ralf