Re: texi2pdf: environment variables with spaces don't work

[Gavin Smith]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2022 at 06:12:15AM +0000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> 
> For testing purposes I generated a 'luatex-plain' format with
> 
> ```
> mtxrun --generate
> mtxrun --script plain --make
> ```
> 
> 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
> ```
> 

I know very little about LuaTeX so don't know how to generate a luatex-plain
format the way you state, so I have difficulty replicating this problem.

Could you send the output from

  PDFTEX="luatex --fmt=luatex-plain" texi2pdf --verbose foo.texi

so that I might have a better idea what is going on?

I've thought for a while that is not a great error message when TeX doesn't
work.

Maybe we could revisit why the test for -recorder vs. \openout tracing
was added in the first place and rip it out if it is no longer necessary.