Re: LuaTeX on Mac OS X

[Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com>]

Dear Thomas, dear Dalyoung, dear all,

Thank you so much for the detailed procedure you sent about  
installing LuaTeX on MacOS X.
I could follow your instructions up to some point, but I must confess  
that I ended up into some confusion when you say

> After that, we create symbolic links to these programs in the
> directory where
> we installed luatex:
> # cd /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin/pdftex
> # sudo ln -s /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua/
> luatools.lua luatools
> # sudo ln -s /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua/
> mtxrun.lua mtxrun

Indeed the binary paths I have for my TeX programs are

/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/
/usr/texbin

of which the first one contains the directory

/usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0

However, in this directory I only have a file "pdftex" which is not a  
directory, and therefore the command

cd /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0/pdftex/

results in:

bash: cd: /usr/local/gwTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0/pdftex/: Not  
a directory

(By the way the command "rehash" you mention in your instructions  
does not exist, so I had to use
sudo texhash
instead. Also, in order to "export" the environment variables as you  
mention in your instructions, I had to switch to "bash", the "Bourne  
Again Shell". However these are not the main issues).

So it seems that the procedures for installing LuaTeX are not yet  
thouroughly straightforward, and persons like Dalyoung and me have to  
wait a little bit...

Once again thanks for your patience and help though!

Best regards: OK


On 2 oct. 2007, at 19:53, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

>
> On Oct 1, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Otared Kavian wrote:
>
>> Dear Dalyoung,
>>
>> Like many other ConTeXt users I followed up the many threads about
>> how to install, successfully, LuaTeX.
>> In particular I was interested in your experience since I had more or
>> less the same problems as the ones you described in your latest
>> messages on the list.
>> Now my question is: did you succeed to install and use LuaTeX on Mac
>> OS X?
>> 	--- If yes, could you please describe how you did proceed?
>> 	--- If no, this means we have to wait more for our salvation...
>>
>> Thanks for your attention and best regards: OK
>>
>>
> OK, I have just summarized my own experience with luatex. Please
> comment; if this is helpful at all, we should put it on the wiki.
>
> Thomas
>
> Setting up luatex on OS X
>
> The following remarks are not more than an amplification of what Hans
> writes in
> magazin #12. However, since some users have had difficulties, here's
> a short
> summary of the steps that I have followed on my system (OS X 10.4;
> system
> language set to English; vanilla TeXLive installation) to work with
> luatex.
>
> 1. Get the latest ConTeXt version.
>
> Download the latest cont-tmf.zip at
> www.pragma-ade.com (either stable or beta). Unzip this file in a
> texmf-tree. It
> is recommended that you do this in a local tree. This way, if you
> ever have
> problems, you can just delete this local tree and continue working
> with the
> stable tree that came with your distribution. If you don't know where
> your
> local texmf tree is located, follow these directions (a line with #
> in front
> means you should type the line following this # into your Terminal
> window;
> press "Return" at the end of the line. Comments or explanations which
> should
> not be retyped are included in <> brackets. Please be careful to  
> retype
> exactly, leaving all the quotes etc. in place!).
>
> # kpsewhich --expand-var '$TEXMFLOCAL'
>
> On my system, this expands to
> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
>
> Now go to this directory
>
> # cd /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
>
> download the file cont-tmf.zip to this directory and unzip it. On
> most systems,
> you will need superuser rights to do this; after entering the sudo
> command, you
> will be asked for your password.
>
> # sudo unzip cont-tmf.zip
> Password:
> # <type your password, then RETURN>
> Archive:  cont-tmf.zip
> replace bibtex/bst/context/cont-ab.bst? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one,
> [r]ename:
> # <type A> <then type RETURN>
>
> After this, a long list of files will scroll by.
>
> 2. Regenerate the formats
>
> While we're at it, we might as well regenerate the formats for pdftex-
> based
> ConTeXT:
>
> # sudo texmfstart texexec --make --all --pdftex
>
> You'll see the output on the Terminal; at the end, texexec should
> tell you that
> it has regenerated all the formats.
> TeXExec |
> TeXExec | tex engine path: /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config/web2c/
> pdftex
> TeXExec | mps engine path: /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config/web2c
> TeXExec |
> TeXExec | tex: 02/10/2007 17:50:43 > /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-
> config/web2c/pdftex/cont-en.fmt (7392414)
> TeXExec | tex: 02/10/2007 17:50:57 > /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-
> config/web2c/pdftex/cont-nl.fmt (7473512)
> TeXExec | tex: 02/10/2007 17:50:57 > /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-
> config/web2c/pdftex/mptopdf.fmt (277947)
> TeXExec | mps: 02/10/2007 17:50:58 > /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-
> config/web2c/metafun.mem (482192)
> TeXExec |
> TeXExec | runtime: 7.575246
>
> 3. Set environment variables
>
> In its current beta stadium, luatex needs some environment variables
> to be set;
> this will probably change soon. In my experiments, on OS X, it needs
> these
> four variables:
>
> TEXMFCACHE: this decides where the luatex-cache directory will be
> created. If
> you set this variable to a temporary directory such as /tmp, it will
> be deleted
> at every reboot. This is a good idea since luatex caches lots of
> files and
> paths in this directory, so it makes sense to refresh this directory
> often.
>
> TEXMFCNF: This should point to the directory where the file texmf.cnf
> which
> your TeX installation uses is located. In order to find out where
> this is, run
> this command:
>
> #kpsewhich texmf.cnf
>
> On my system, this points to
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> so we need to set TEXMFCNF to /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c.
>
> TEXMF
> This should list ALL texmf trees which your TeX installation uses. In
> order to
> know what these trees are, run this command:
>
> # kpsewhich --expand-var '$TEXMF'
>
> The output of this command on my system is:
>
> {/Users/tas/.texlive2007/texmf-config,/Users/tas/.texlive2007/texmf-
> var,/Users/tas/texmf,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,!!/usr/
> local/texlive/2007/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,!!/usr/
> local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-
> dist,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf.gwtex}
>
> In this form, the list contains a few shortcuts and symbols which are
> special
> to kpsewhich. Remove all the exclamation marks; if there are other
> shortcuts in
> your output, bring it into a flat list of Unix directories.
>
> LUAINPUTS
>
> These are the directories where the lua scripts are located, they are
> on my
> system:
>
> {/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base,/usr/local/texlive/
> texmf-local/scripts/context/lua,/Users/tas/texmf/scripts/context/lua}
>
> Since these variables will have to be set every time you run luaTeX,
> it makes
> sense to automate the process. So we collect all the definitions like
> so (these
> are the values on my system; adapt to your setup!):
>
> export TEXMFCACHE="/tmp"
> export TEXMFCNF="/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c"
> export TEXMF="{/Users/tas/.texlive2007/texmf-config,/Users/
> tas/.texlive2007/texmf-var,/Users/tas/texmf,/usr/local/texlive/2007/
> texmf-config,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var,/usr/local/texlive/
> 2007/texmf,/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local,/usr/local/texlive/2007/
> texmf-dist,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf.gwtex}"
> export LUAINPUTS="{/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base,/
> usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua,/Users/tas/texmf/
> scripts/context/lua}"
>
> There are two ways you can set these variables easily:
>
> a. put them in a file; let's call this file .luatex. Every time you
> want to run
> luatex, just say
>
> # source .luatex
>
> in your terminal.
>
> b. If you want these variables to be set every time you log into your
> computer,
> put them in a file .bashrc in your home directory (this only works if
> your
> shell is bash, the default shell in OS X 10.4 and 10.3. If you have
> never
> tinkered with the shell, it probably is).
>
> Let's test if setting the variables has worked:
>
> # echo $TEXMF
>
> the output on my system is:
>
> {/Users/tas/.texlive2007/texmf-config,/Users/tas/.texlive2007/texmf-
> var,/Users/tas/texmf,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,/usr/local/
> texlive/2007/texmf-var,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,/usr/local/
> texlive/texmf-local,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist,/usr/local/
> texlive/2007/texmf.gwtex}
>
> 4. Installing the binaries.
>
> We now have to install and tweak the necessary binaries. First, of
> course,
> luatex itself. We put it in the same directory with all the other TeX
> binaries.
> To determine where that is, we issue
>
> # which pdftex
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin/pdftex
>
> So we get the latest luatex from www.luatex.org and copy it to this
> directory.
> We also create two links to luatex:
>
> # cd /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin/pdftex
> # sudo ln -s luatex texlua
> # sudo ln -s luatex texluac
>
> There are two more lua scripts which need to be installed.
> Unfortunately, Hans
> uses a different operating system, so we need to make them executable
> first. Go
> to the directory where you installed your ConTeXt update, so in my  
> case:
>
> # cd /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua/
> # sudo chmod 755 mtxrun.lua
> # sudo chmod 755 luatools.lua
>
> After that, we create symbolic links to these programs in the
> directory where
> we installed luatex:
> # cd /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin/pdftex
> # sudo ln -s /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua/
> luatools.lua luatools
> # sudo ln -s /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua/
> mtxrun.lua mtxrun
>
> Again, let's test if this has worked:
> # rehash
> # which luatools
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin/luatools
>
> 5. Generating the Database and the formats
>
> You're almost there! Now let luatools generate its internal database:
> # luatools --generate
>
> Again, a long list of stuff will scroll by (if luatools gives just a
> fewlines
> of output, you know that you've made a mistake somewhere along the
> way). Here's
> the beginning and end on my system:
>
> LuaTools | loading /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> LuaTools | preparing configuration in /tmp/luatex-cache/context/
> 6da32d2ec193ac6d2428d020ce069374/trees/
> 6da32d2ec193ac6d2428d020ce069374.tma
> LuaTools | saving configuration in /tmp/luatex-cache/context/
> 6da32d2ec193ac6d2428d020ce069374/trees/
> 6da32d2ec193ac6d2428d020ce069374.tma
>
> [snip]
>
> LuaTools | saving files in /tmp/luatex-cache/context/
> 6da32d2ec193ac6d2428d020ce069374/trees/
> 729867c88f88a392262749cb9c3d602b.tma
> LuaTools | compiling files to /tmp/luatex-cache/context/
> 6da32d2ec193ac6d2428d020ce069374/trees/
> 729867c88f88a392262749cb9c3d602b.tmc
> LuaTools |
> LuaTools | runtime: 9.74 seconds
>
> We test if luatex is able to find files:
>
> # luatools cont-new.tex
> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex
>
> Then, we generate the formats for luatex:
>
> luatools --ini --verbose --compile cont-en
>
> Again, many lines of output, among those the confirmation that the
> formats have
> been built and installed:
>
> LuaTools | creating initialization file cont-en
> LuaTools | using library path : /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/
> context/base
> LuaTools | using lua libraries: l-string.lua l-table.lua l-
> boolean.lua l-number.lua l-unicode.lua l-md5.lua l-os.lua l-io.lua l-
> file.lua l-dir.lua l-utils.lua l-tex.lua luat-lib.lua luat-inp.lua
> luat-tmp.lua luat-zip.lua luat-tex.lua
> LuaTools | using compiled initialization file cont-en.luc
> LuaTools | using lua initialization file cont-en.luc
> LuaTools | running command: luatex --ini --lua="cont-en.luc" "/usr/
> local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex" \dump
> This is luaTeX, Version 3.141592-beta-0.11.2-2007091918 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> (INITEX)
>
> [snip]
>
> ConTeXt  ver: 2007.09.28 16:52 MKIV  fmt: 2007.10.2  int: english/
> english
>
> lua : used config path - /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c
> lua : used cache path - /tmp/luatex-cache/context/
> 6da32d2ec193ac6d2428d020ce069374
>   )
> Beginning to dump on file cont-en.fmt
>   (format=cont-en 2007.10.2)
>
> And that's it! Now you can create your first test file and typeset it
> with
> luatex:
>
> texmfstart texexec --luatex test.tex
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