From c0e066a7b8f4de89efe683d48fa1a5d70a0b6160 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:30:56 +0000
Subject: When the HTML output dir is specified using --dir=~/foo, the tilde
 needs to be expanded by mkhowto, since the shell won't touch it except at the
 start of the complete argument.

---
 Doc/tools/mkhowto | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkhowto b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
index 4fe97fb..d0ab63c 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/mkhowto
+++ b/Doc/tools/mkhowto
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ class Options:
             elif opt == "--dir":
                 if os.sep == "\\":
                     arg = re.sub("/", "\\", arg)
-                self.builddir = arg
+                self.builddir = os.path.expanduser(arg)
             elif opt == "--paper":
                 self.paper = arg
             elif opt == "--dvips-safe":
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