Re: texinfo not happy with texlive not producing log?

[Gavin Smith]

On 27 October 2016 at 23:08, Liviu Ionescu <address@hidden> wrote:
> after some debugging sessions, it looks like texi2dvi expects etex to 
> generate an output log, or something like this, and if this does not happen, 
> fails with "TeX neither supports -recorder nor outputs \openout lines in its 
> log file".
>
> ...
> + tex_cmd='etex --file-line-error </dev/null '\''\nonstopmode'\'''
> + batch=false
> + tex_cmd='etex --file-line-error </dev/null '\''\nonstopmode'\'' 
> '\''\input'\'' ./openout.tex'
> + verbose '/Users/ilg/opt/homebrew-gae/bin/texi2dvi: running etex 
> --file-line-error </dev/null '\''\nonstopmode'\'' '\''\input'\'' 
> ./openout.tex ...'
> + false
> + rm -fr openout.log
> + eval 'etex --file-line-error </dev/null '\''\nonstopmode'\'' '\''\input'\'' 
> ./openout.tex'
> + test -f openout.log                                           <<<<==== file 
> missing with compiled texinfo
> + grep '^\\openout..\? *= *`\?dum\.dum'\''\?' openout.log       <<<<==== test 
> skiped with compiled texinfo
> + cd_orig
> ...
>
> any suggestions why this happen?

Is etex creating a log file?