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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: luatools cache problem (beta)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:25:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <487DCCAF.4040201@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <487DB21D.6000207@gmx.net>

Peter Rolf wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i'm currently running the context beta from 07.07.2008 with the windows
> minimals from 10.07.2008. all my (quick) tries to update to a later beta 
> version have failed.
> 
> my main problem is, that luatools.lua doesn't work properly any more;
> if i start 'luatools --generate' inside eshell (zshell clone?) the 
> program simply hangs (does nothing). if i use the normal dos box with 
> setuptex.bat i get

so, something shell on windows?

> -----
> R:\tex\texmf-context\scripts\context\lua>luatools --generate
> LuaTools | variable SELFAUTOLOC set to r:/tex/texmf-mswin/bin
> LuaTools | variable SELFAUTODIR set to r:/tex/texmf-mswin
> LuaTools | variable SELFAUTOPARENT set to r:/tex
> LuaTools | variable TEXMFCNF set to r:\tex\texmf{-local,-context,}/web2c
> LuaTools | loading r:/tex/texmf-context/web2c/texmf.cnf
> LuaTools | loading r:/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
> 
> Should I create the cache path r:/tex/texmf-cache? [yes|no] [no]
> 
> Should I create the cache path r:/tex/texmf-cache? [yes|no] [no]
> 
> Should I create the cache path C:/tmp? [yes|no] [no] yes
> 
> Should I create the cache path C:/tmp? [yes|no] [no]
> 
> Should I create the cache path /Dokumente und Einstellungen/sojus?
> [yes|no] [no]
> 
> 
> fatal error: there is no valid (writable) cache path defined
> -----
> 
> mh, the path r:/tex/texmf-cache is already present and writable. also it 
> doesn't have any effect if i answer yes or no.

indeed we do a test now on writable ... i wonder why that test fails
then

Hans

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-16 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-16  8:32 Peter Rolf
2008-07-16 10:25 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2008-07-16 12:54   ` Peter Rolf
2008-07-16 13:16     ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-07-16 13:53       ` Peter Rolf

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