Comment 1 for bug 1687813

The problem remains in version 1.4:

/Users/anders/dir~1> rubber -vvv --into=out test.tex
rubber -vvv --into=out test.tex
This is Rubber version 1.4.
[latex] parsing /Users/anders/dir~1/test.tex
[latex] script module article registered
[latex] end of /Users/anders/dir~1/test.tex
[latex] dependencies: ['test.aux', '/Users/anders/dir~1/test.tex']
[depend] make test.dvi -> ['test.aux', '/Users/anders/dir~1/test.tex']
[depend] while making test.dvi: cyclic dependency on test.aux (pruned)
[latex] building additional files...
compiling test.tex...
executing: latex \nonstopmode \input{/Users/anders/dir~1/test.tex}
  with environment: {'TEXINPUTS': '.:/Users/anders/dir~1:'}
process 8699 (latex) returned 1
Output file `out/test.dvi' was not produced.
There were errors compiling test.aux.