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

[Gavin Smith]

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.