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My current .latexmkrc looks (more or less) like this:

$pdflatex = "xelatex -src-specials -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %O %S";

# for nomenclature
add_cus_dep("nlo", "nls", 0, "nlo2nls");
sub nlo2nls {
    system("makeindex $_[0].nlo -s nomencl.ist -o $_[0].nls -t $_[0].nlg");
}

makeindex works as expected. Being a lazy person I'd like to use that shiny new feature of latexmk and output to a build directory to reduce clutter ($out_dir). Unfortunately I did not find a way to tell latexmk to look in that directory for the .nlo dependency (I guess it looks in the source files' dir).

Any ideas how to modify nlo2nls?

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Did you try adding $out_dir/ in front of each $_[0]? – egreg Dec 30 '11 at 20:35
Yes, I forgot to mention that doesn't work. The problem seems to be that latexmk doesn't find the dependency file: Latexmk: Missing input file: 'thesis.nls'. This is expected, as thesis.nls is generated from thesis.nlo which is is output to build/. – Alex Dec 30 '11 at 20:39
It works for me with version 4.30a with exactly the custom dependency you defined. If you don't have the current version of latexmk, I would upgrade, since there were some problems with building to an output directory in earlier versions. If you have the problem with the current version, I would need to see more details to debug the problem. – John Collins Jan 2 '12 at 19:29

closed as too localized by lockstep, Marco Daniel, Stefan Kottwitz♦ Feb 5 '12 at 0:25

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