How to execute a org-babel source block within the working directory?

Question

Say you have the following org-babel source block:

#+BEGIN_SRC latex :results raw :file test.pdf
\LaTeX
#+END_SRC

When executing it, org-babel will do the actual compilation in a temporary directory and move the resulting PDF back to your working directory afterwards. The problem with this is that I cannot include my local LaTeX commands and configuration with \input{myMacros}, since it won't be found in the temporary directory.

How can I tell org-babel to execute a source block in the folder of the org-mode file (hence in the default-directory)?

Answer 1

I've checked :dir again and it seems to work now (with org-mode v9.4). Here is a minimal example:

#+BEGIN_SRC latex :tangle ./workingdir/inputfile.tex
Content from input file
#+END_SRC

#+BEGIN_SRC latex :results raw :file test.pdf :dir ./workingdir
\input{inputfile}
\LaTeX
#+END_SRC

Thanks to @Hubisan for the pointer!