From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Luatex installation
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:21:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47754CCA.9020803@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FDAA3345-BD1D-4E47-BA2C-2D9A2053F34E@science.uva.nl>
Hans van der Meer wrote:
> I have read the instructions for installing luatex on MacOSX so
> clearly spelt out by Thomas Schmitz, but they leave a question open.
> Thomas advises to set TEXMFCACHE=/tmp with the argument that it then
> is cleared each time the computer is restarted.
> What is unclear to me if this means that on each restart some explicit
> reinitialzation has to be done or are the data in TEXMFCACHE suitable
> candidates for thrashing at all times?
clearing the cache each time is a waste of time
mtxrun --script cache
can be used to remove redundant files or clear the cache
Hans
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