On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 04:25:37PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > > However, using it as > > > > ``` > > PDFTEX="luatex --fmt=luatex-plain" texi2pdf foo.texi > > ``` > > > > fails with > > > > ``` > > texi2dvi: TeX neither supports -recorder nor outputs \openout lines in its > > log file > > ``` > >
> > It seems that the `PDFTEX` environment variable doesn't accept > > commands with arguments. I'll add that with the testing with e.g. PDFTEX='pdftex -8bit' ../util/texi2pdf --verbose ../doc/texinfo.texi /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: Processing ../doc/texinfo.texi ... /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: Checking TeX \openout in log support... /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: running pdftex -8bit --file-line-error </dev/null '\input' ./openout.tex ... /usr/local/bin/texi2dvi: Checking TeX \openout in log support... yes works fine so there must be more going on here. The following PDFTEX='pdftex -8bit' ../util/texi2dvi --pdf --verbose ../doc/texinfo.texi is also fine.
