luatex-cache setup

luatex-cache setup

[Ernesto Posse]

Hello. I use a few tools from ConTeXt such as mptopdf, and whenever I
run them they generate a 'luatex-cache' folder directly under my user
folder, but this luatex-cache folder is not hidden. How can I
configure ConTeXt or luatex to tell it where the cache folder should
be? (I looked up the archives and docs but I didn't find anything
about this.)

Thanks

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Ernesto Posse

Modelling and Analysis in Software Engineering
School of Computing
Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Re: luatex-cache setup

[Marco]

On 2011-04-12 Ernesto Posse <eposse@cs.queensu.ca> wrote:

> Hello. I use a few tools from ConTeXt such as mptopdf, and whenever I
> run them they generate a 'luatex-cache' folder directly under my user
> folder, but this luatex-cache folder is not hidden. How can I
> configure ConTeXt or luatex to tell it where the cache folder should
> be? (I looked up the archives and docs but I didn't find anything
> about this.)

Point the environment variable TEXMFCACHE to a directory
where the user has write access to.


Marco


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Re: luatex-cache setup

[Ernesto Posse]

I'm confused. my /etc/texmf.cnf file contains:

TEXMFCACHE = /var/tex/cache

and this directory exists but it is empty. Why is this being ignored?
If I don't have a user-specific environment variable with that name,
shouldn't the one from texmf.cnf be used?

Furthermore, when I run

kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFCACHE

it shows that directory, but when I run texconfig, TEXMFCACHE does not
appear under kpathsea variables. What is the problem?


PS: I'm running context 2009.11.26-2, luatex 0.60.1-1build2,
texlive-luatex 2009-10 on ubuntu 10.10.



On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Marco <netuse@lavabit.com> wrote:
> On 2011-04-12 Ernesto Posse <eposse@cs.queensu.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hello. I use a few tools from ConTeXt such as mptopdf, and whenever I
>> run them they generate a 'luatex-cache' folder directly under my user
>> folder, but this luatex-cache folder is not hidden. How can I
>> configure ConTeXt or luatex to tell it where the cache folder should
>> be? (I looked up the archives and docs but I didn't find anything
>> about this.)
>
> Point the environment variable TEXMFCACHE to a directory
> where the user has write access to.
>
>
> Marco
>
>
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School of Computing
Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Re: luatex-cache setup

[Marco]

On 2011-04-12 Ernesto Posse <eposse@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm confused. my /etc/texmf.cnf file contains:
> 
> TEXMFCACHE = /var/tex/cache
> 
> and this directory exists but it is empty. Why is this being ignored?

What are the permissions of this directory?

> If I don't have a user-specific environment variable with that name,
> shouldn't the one from texmf.cnf be used?

In the minimals distribution this is the case, I think the
same goes for texlive.

> 
> Furthermore, when I run
> 
> kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFCACHE
> 
> it shows that directory,

MkIV doesn't use kpsewhich, but this shows that the value
from your texmf.cnf is read.

> but when I run texconfig,

I don't know what texconfig is for.

> TEXMFCACHE does not
> appear under kpathsea variables. What is the problem?

I don't use texlive, I can only speak for the minimals
distribution. But you can try the following (as a normal
user):

1) Create a cache directory somewhere
2) set TEXMFCACHE to this directory and export it
3) Run mtxrun --generate
4) Run context --make
5) Run context on a simple hello world file

The generated formats should be placed in the new cache
directory.

> PS: I'm running context 2009.11.26-2, luatex 0.60.1-1build2,
> texlive-luatex 2009-10 on ubuntu 10.10.

If you have troubles or want a more up-to-date system you
should consider installing the minimals.


Marco


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