owards #13132 - Extend the default length of pdftex log lines

[Enrico Forestieri]

On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 03:09:24AM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
>On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 02:06:49AM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
>> On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 01:08:24AM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
>> >
>> > Can someone on windows confirm the attached patch works?
>> > (Mac would be also nice but I am reasonably confident this works there as well.)
>> >
>> > Just compile the introduction manual, go to the Document->LaTeX log
>> > and check that at the very end the list of paths is superlong line.
>>
>> I already have max_print_line=1024 in the MiKTeX configuration files. Hence,
>> I tried to confirm that it works the other way around, i.e. I replaced "999"
>> with "80" in the patch. Unfortunately, I still have a superlong line at the
>> end of the log file...
>
>I did not know max_print_line can be used as env variable for MiKTeX as well.
>If this is the case isn't it possible that config values take precendence over
>env variables?

So, I removed max_print_line from configuration files and got broken 
lines in the log. Then, I applied the patch with the "999" value and ... 
nothing changed, i.e. still broken lines.

Apparently, MiKTeX doesn't pay attention to the max_print_line env 
variable.

-- 
Enrico