** Attachment added: "this'll fix it."
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/22478789/patch
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: latex2rtf
latex2rtf seems to allow, via -o commandline argument set, to specify
the location of an output file. However the directory, at least for '.'
is not listened to, even if given. The result is stored in the right
filename, but in the home directory instead of the directory specified.
This is at least the case when the input file is in the home directory,
and the program is run from another directory.
example:
jcl...@cdd4:~/mirror/www.spiritsd.ca/test$ ls ~/*.tex
/home/jcliff/something.tex
jcl...@cdd4:~/mirror/www.spiritsd.ca/test$ latex2rtf -o ./out.rtf
~/something.tex
jcl...@cdd4:~/mirror/www.spiritsd.ca/test$ ls *.rtf
ls: cannot access *.rtf: No such file or directory
jcl...@cdd4:~/mirror/www.spiritsd.ca/test$ ls ~/*.rtf
/home/jcliff/out.rtf /home/jcliff/something.rtf
what should happen
jcl...@cdd4:~/mirror/www.spiritsd.ca/test$ ls ~/*.tex
/home/jcliff/something.tex
jcl...@cdd4:~/mirror/www.spiritsd.ca/test$ latex2rtf -o ./out.rtf
~/something.tex
jcl...@cdd4:~/mirror/www.spiritsd.ca/test$ ls *.rtf
+ out.rtf
Looking through the code it looks like it does something strange with slashes
in teh filename itself.
(gdb) next
0x1e3d120 "/home/jcliff/./out.rtf
specifically, at main.c at lines 743-747 seems to be the issue:
<code>
if (g_home_dir)
name = strdup_together(g_home_dir, filename);
else
name = strdup(filename);
</code>
Where 'name' is the output file name, to be opened with fopen on the
next line. The 'else' condition is what I would consider the desirable
one, and seems to do what it needs to; opens the file at that location,
not at some location that was not specified(file name under the home
directory). I tested the 'else' condition and it does output to the
correct directory.
So what I see is that there are two options here. One, the default,
somewhat confusing behaviour can be kept, and there's probably a way to force
the 'else' condition to occur.
On the other hand, there could be an option to force the odd behaviour, and
have the default behaviour be that when -o is specified the next argument is
what is, in fact, opened as the output file, bounded by whatever fopen can
handle(which looks like quite a bit).
'dir' doesn't occur in /usr/share/latex2rtf/cfg, so it doesn't look like
there's a configuration option to set either as default behaviour
+
+ edit: missed a crucial word.
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does not use input output directory properly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327846
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