From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: trouble starting context
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:18:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <486C997E.4090503@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2vdznaiba.fsf@stanford.edu>
Jesse Alama wrote:
> Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> writes:
>>
>> I have:
>>
>> LUAINPUTS=.;$TEXMF/tex/{context,plain/base,generic}//:$TEXMF/scripts/context/lua
>> TEXMFSCRIPTS=.;$TEXMF/tex/{context,plain/base,generic,}//;$TEXMF/scripts/context//
>>
>> and I strongly suspect both are needed. After adjusting the value(s),
>> you will have to rerun luatools --generate.
>
> I modified texmf.cnf to give these variables those values, but I still
> get the same error, even after luatools --generate. Further
> suggestions?
Maybe
$ env MPX_INPUT_TRACE=3 context ...
will give some hint about what mtxrun is doing.
> By the way, I initially modified the "local" texmf.cnf file
>
> texlive/2008/texmf.cnf
>
> rather than the "gloal" configuration file
>
> texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
>
> because the former file says that it should contain changes to the
> latter:
>
> <---snip--->
> % If you want to configure something to a value different then the one
> % in texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, just put the changed value here.
> <---snip--->
>
> But I noticed that when I ran luatools --generate, it apparently ignored
> this "local" texmf.cnf file; it read only the "global" texmf.cnf file.
This seems to be a difference of opinion between luatools and kpathsea,
(luatools should probably be adjusted to behave the same as kpathsea).
> I inferred that from the output:
>
> LuaTools | error unable to locate texmfcnf.lua
> LuaTools | loading /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> LuaTools | preparing configuration for /Users/alama/luatex-cache/context/79597d0cc507e8e510dd517f8850b2ca/trees/ae181585be5454a57ae25fb95c3ccbef.tma
> LuaTools | saving configuration in /Users/alama/luatex-cache/context/79597d0cc507e8e510dd517f8850b2ca/trees/ae181585be5454a57ae25fb95c3ccbef.tma
> LuaTools | compiling configuration to /Users/alama/luatex-cache/context/79597d0cc507e8e510dd517f8850b2ca/trees/ae181585be5454a57ae25fb95c3ccbef.tmc
> ...etc.
>
> Thus I modified the "global" configuration file instead. By the way,
> the variables LUAINPUTS and TEXMFSCRIPTS already had values:
>
> LUAINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/scripts/{$progname,$engine,}/lua//;$TEXINPUTS
> TEXMFSCRIPTS = $TEXMF/scripts/{$engine,$progname,}//
>
> But I overwrote those to give them the values you recommended, to no
> avail, unfortunately.
>
> Jesse
>
Best wishes,
Taco
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-03 9:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-02 2:06 Jesse Alama
2008-07-02 7:56 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-07-03 1:05 ` Jesse Alama
2008-07-03 9:18 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2008-07-04 3:42 ` Jesse Alama
2008-07-04 4:16 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-07-04 19:40 ` Jesse Alama
2008-07-04 20:32 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-04 21:41 ` Jesse Alama
2008-07-04 22:17 ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-05 1:17 ` Jesse Alama
2008-07-05 7:17 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-07-06 20:55 ` Jesse Alama
2008-07-07 4:55 ` Jesse Alama
2008-07-07 5:53 ` Jesse Alama
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