gettimeofday under XP

gettimeofday under XP

[Peter Rolf]

Hi,

I run into the following error with the new version:
'luatools --generate' results in

Error in lua file loading: r:\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\luatools.lua:1402:
attempt to call field 'gettimeofday' (a nil value)


There seems to be no 'os.gettimeofday' under Windows XP.
This patch of luatools.lua works here (better check twice) :D

if os.gettimeofday then
    os.clock = os.gettimeofday
    local startuptime = os.gettimeofday()
    function os.runtime()
        return os.gettimeofday() - startuptime
    end
end

-- if os.gettimeofday then
--     os.clock = os.gettimeofday
-- end

-- do
--     local startuptime = os.gettimeofday()
--     function os.runtime()
--         return os.gettimeofday() - startuptime
--     end
-- end


Best wishes, Peter
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Re: gettimeofday under XP

[Arthur Reutenauer]

> Error in lua file loading: r:\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\luatools.lua:1402:
> attempt to call field 'gettimeofday' (a nil value)

  Your LuaTeX is "too old".  Take yesterday's beta (0.20).

	Arthur
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Re: gettimeofday under XP

[Peter Rolf]

Arthur Reutenauer schrieb:
>> Error in lua file loading: r:\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\luatools.lua:1402:
>> attempt to call field 'gettimeofday' (a nil value)
> 
>   Your LuaTeX is "too old".  Take yesterday's beta (0.20).

mhh, I already use this version in my minimal installation. There is no
doubt about it.

> 
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Re: gettimeofday under XP

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 12/6/07, Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net> wrote:
> Arthur Reutenauer schrieb:
> >> Error in lua file loading: r:\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\luatools.lua:1402:
> >> attempt to call field 'gettimeofday' (a nil value)
> >
> >   Your LuaTeX is "too old".  Take yesterday's beta (0.20).
>
> mhh, I already use this version in my minimal installation. There is no
> doubt about it.

Then perhaps luatools --selfupdate? (only guessing)

Mojca
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Re: gettimeofday under XP

[Taco Hoekwater]

Peter Rolf wrote:
> Arthur Reutenauer schrieb:
>>> Error in lua file loading: r:\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\luatools.lua:1402:
>>> attempt to call field 'gettimeofday' (a nil value)
>>   Your LuaTeX is "too old".  Take yesterday's beta (0.20).
> 
> mhh, I already use this version in my minimal installation. There is no
> doubt about it.

Did you forget to copy the new executable to texlua.exe perhaps?
os.gettimeofday() is available everywhere except on Solaris.

Best wishes,
Taco

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Re: gettimeofday under XP

[Arthur Reutenauer]

> os.gettimeofday() is available everywhere except on Solaris.

  It seems to work, though (at least on my machine :-)  And it's in the
Solaris 9 libc.
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Re: gettimeofday under XP

[Taco Hoekwater]

Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>> os.gettimeofday() is available everywhere except on Solaris.
> 
>   It seems to work, though (at least on my machine :-)  And it's in the
> Solaris 9 libc.

Can you (or someone else) figure out what the C preprocessor defines
are for "post-SunOs Solaris"? If that is clear, I can use that.

Either that or a volunteer that wants to work on an autofoo patch for
me would make this work on almost all modern machines.

Best wishes,
Taco




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Re: gettimeofday under XP

[Peter Rolf]

Taco Hoekwater schrieb:
> 
> Peter Rolf wrote:
>> Arthur Reutenauer schrieb:
>>>> Error in lua file loading: r:\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\luatools.lua:1402:
>>>> attempt to call field 'gettimeofday' (a nil value)
>>>   Your LuaTeX is "too old".  Take yesterday's beta (0.20).
>> mhh, I already use this version in my minimal installation. There is no
>> doubt about it.
> 
> Did you forget to copy the new executable to texlua.exe perhaps?

Bingo!

This reminds me, that there are still three identical huge files in my
bin directory. Aside from the waste of space such stupid errors can
occur. Is this problem solved in the meantime?

Thanks anyway,

Peter

> os.gettimeofday() is available everywhere except on Solaris.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Taco
> 
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Re: gettimeofday under XP

[Taco Hoekwater]

Peter Rolf wrote:
> Taco Hoekwater schrieb:
>> Peter Rolf wrote:
>>> Arthur Reutenauer schrieb:
>>>>> Error in lua file loading: r:\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\luatools.lua:1402:
>>>>> attempt to call field 'gettimeofday' (a nil value)
>>>>   Your LuaTeX is "too old".  Take yesterday's beta (0.20).
>>> mhh, I already use this version in my minimal installation. There is no
>>> doubt about it.
>> Did you forget to copy the new executable to texlua.exe perhaps?
> 
> Bingo!
> 
> This reminds me, that there are still three identical huge files in my
> bin directory. Aside from the waste of space such stupid errors can
> occur. Is this problem solved in the meantime?

texlua.bat:

   @echo off
   luatex --luaonly %1

Should work.

Best wishes,
Taco
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Re: gettimeofday under XP

[Peter Rolf]

Taco Hoekwater schrieb:
> 
> Peter Rolf wrote:
>> Taco Hoekwater schrieb:
>>> Peter Rolf wrote:
>>>> Arthur Reutenauer schrieb:
>>>>>> Error in lua file loading: r:\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\luatools.lua:1402:
>>>>>> attempt to call field 'gettimeofday' (a nil value)
>>>>>   Your LuaTeX is "too old".  Take yesterday's beta (0.20).
>>>> mhh, I already use this version in my minimal installation. There is no
>>>> doubt about it.
>>> Did you forget to copy the new executable to texlua.exe perhaps?
>> Bingo!
>>
>> This reminds me, that there are still three identical huge files in my
>> bin directory. Aside from the waste of space such stupid errors can
>> occur. Is this problem solved in the meantime?
> 
> texlua.bat:
> 
>    @echo off
>    luatex --luaonly %1
> 
> Should work.

Yes, I already had a batch sript for this, but the latest mswin binaries
contains a texlua.exe. I didn't check, so it's my own fault. Still there
is no such solution for texluac.exe. I run ConTeXt in a RAM disk, so I
don't like the idea of wasting any space.

Time to learn some more luatex. :)

Thanks to all of you for the help!

Peter


> 
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> Taco
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Re: gettimeofday under XP

[Taco Hoekwater]

Peter Rolf wrote:
> 
> Still there
> is no such solution for texluac.exe. I run ConTeXt in a RAM disk, so I
> don't like the idea of wasting any space.

Actually,

texluac.bat:

     @echo off
     luatex --luaconly %1

but it is not mentioned in the --help output, so I am not surprised
you didn't know that.

Best wishes,

Taco


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Re: gettimeofday under XP

[Arthur Reutenauer]

> but it is not mentioned in the --help output, so I am not surprised
> you didn't know that.

  Who needs that?  It's line 388 of luainit.c ;-)
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Re: gettimeofday under XP

[Arthur Reutenauer]

> This reminds me, that there are still three identical huge files in my
> bin directory. Aside from the waste of space such stupid errors can
> occur. Is this problem solved in the meantime?

  Akira Kakuto distributes "luatex.dll" in his W32TeX distribution, and
links all three binaries to them.  But it should also be possible to
write a simple batch file like texlua.bat calling "luatex --luaonly";
and that way you don't have to remember to copy all three binaries each
time (which is equivalent to linking on Unix, and replacing only the
LuaTeX binary).  I wonder if anyone has already done that?

	Arthur
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Re: gettimeofday under XP

[Hans Hagen]

Peter Rolf wrote:

> This reminds me, that there are still three identical huge files in my
> bin directory. Aside from the waste of space such stupid errors can
> occur. Is this problem solved in the meantime?

their size is nothing compared to font files -)

Hans

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