Luatex installation

Luatex installation

[Hans van der Meer]

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?

Hans van der Meer




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Re: Luatex installation

[Hans Hagen]

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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