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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: "Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu>
Cc: Org-Mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] org-compile-file
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 14:29:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fur8h2gp.fsf@saiph.selenimh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.20.1607141839530.1416@charles-berrys-macbook.local> (Charles C. Berry's message of "Thu, 14 Jul 2016 19:25:20 -0700")

Hello,

"Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu> writes:

> In trying to export to a pdf in another directory specified with a 
> relative pathname as the destination, I kept running into errors.
>
> It looks like `org-compile-file' does not handle such things gracefully.
>
> I believe that `out-dir' here is redundant as `default-directory' is 
> already set to `out-dir':
>
>        (let ((output (concat out-dir base-name "." ext)))
>
> and deleting it seems to cure the problems I am seeing.
>
> Here is an ECM
>
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>    (make-directory "./tmp" t)
>    (shell-command "echo \"start...\" > ./tmp/ocf.txt")
>    (org-compile-file "./tmp/ocf.txt" '("echo \"done\" >> %b.txt") "txt")
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS:
>
> Results should be
>
> : ocf.txt
>
> and there should be no error messages.

Fixed. Thank you.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

      reply	other threads:[~2016-07-17 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-15  2:25 [BUG] org-compile-file Charles C. Berry
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