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ID	322🔗
Submitted by:	Rebecca McCabe
Date:	2026-11-11 20:46:22
Last update:	2026-11-11 21:12:51
Status	Open Sign in if you want to bump this report.
Category	glossaries-extra
Version	2.1
Summary	automake + latexmk with auxdir causes quoting error

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Description

If compiling with latexmk and an aux directory, latexmk passes the aux directory with quotes into the pdflatex command.

$latexmk -pdf -cd  -interaction=nonstopmode pubs/mwe/mwe.tex -auxdir=aux
Rc files read (in order):
  NONE
Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 9 March 2026. Version 4.88.
Latexmk: Changing directory to 'pubs/mwe/'
Latexmk: applying rule 'pdflatex'...
Rule 'pdflatex':  Reasons for rerun
Changed files or newly in use/created:
  mwe.tex
Category 'changed_user':
  mwe.tex

------------
Run number 1 of rule 'pdflatex'
------------
------------
Running 'pdflatex  -interaction=nonstopmode -recorder -output-directory="aux"  "mwe.tex"'

When makeglossaries obtains this quoted directory and uses it to prepare the makeindex command, it incorrectly handles the quoting, causing the makeindex command to fail with the following error:

runsystem(makeindex -s "aux"/mwe.ist -t "aux"/mwe.glg -o "aux"/mwe.gls "aux"/mw
e.glo)...quotation error in system command.

I was able to patch this bug as follows. The glsquote argument must be both the \l_glossaries_output_dir_tl and #1, not just the \l_glossaries_output_dir_tl as in the current source code:

\makeatletter
\ExplSyntaxOn
\cs_set:Npn \@gls@run@output@file #1
  {
    \glsquote
      { \l_glossaries_output_dir_tl / #1 }
  }
\ExplSyntaxOff
\makeatother

MWE

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%% compile this with either:
%% 1) `latexmk -pdf -cd  -interaction=nonstopmode pubs/mwe/mwe.tex -auxdir=aux`
%% or
%% 2) `latexmk -pdf -cd  -interaction=nonstopmode pubs/mwe/mwe.tex -r pubs/mwe/.latexmkrc`, if there is a .latexmkrc file containing `$aux_dir = 'aux';`

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[automake]{glossaries-extra}

\makeglossaries

\newglossaryentry{sample}{
    name={sample},
    description={An example glossary entry}
}

\begin{document}

This is a \gls{sample} document.

\printglossary

\end{document}

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