Re: [matplotlib-devel] Add some caching to texmanager.py?

[Stephen W. <ste...@cs...>]

John Hunter wrote:

>This is probably failing on the tex/latex temporary files.  I spent
>some time initially trying to figure out how to get these to go into
>~/.tex.cache but didn't succeed.  If anyone knows how to direct
>tex/latex to put the various *.aux, *.log, etc, files in a specified
>directory, pass it my way.
>  
>
 From "man tex" on FC3, the section on environment variables:

       TEXMFOUTPUT
              Normally,  TeX  puts its output files in the current 
directory.
              If any output file cannot be opened there, it tries to 
open  it
              in  the  directory  specified in the environment variable 
TEXM-
              FOUTPUT.  There is no default value  for  that  
variable.   For
              example,  if you say tex paper and the current directory 
is not
              writable, if TEXMFOUTPUT has the value /tmp,  TeX  
attempts  to
              create  /tmp/paper.log  (and  /tmp/paper.dvi,  if any 
output is
              produced.)