From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Context using LuaTeX - distribution packaging question
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:05:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4908435F.9090801@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49084009.30404@net-b.de>
Tobias Burnus wrote:
> some check whether "b" is a symbolic link and if it is, one follows the
> symbolic link until one finds the real binary; then one can use that
> path for ownpath. I tried to find some Lua routine which does so, but I
> couldn't find one ad hoc. (I have also the vague feeling that the
> algorithm fails for /some/directory/which/is/not/in/PATH/luatools.)
>
> I tried lfs.symlinkattributes() (whose mode should be "link") plus
> posix.readlink, but I failed to get this work. (lfs.symlinkattributes
> and posix are not found.)
i remember that there has been some discussion about this following link
issue but i forgot what was the outcome
do you test the latest binaries or the already outdated texlive ones?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-29 11:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-29 9:48 Tobias Burnus
2008-10-29 10:50 ` Tobias Burnus
2008-10-29 11:05 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2008-10-29 11:56 ` Tobias Burnus
2008-10-29 14:58 ` Tobias Burnus
2008-10-29 15:10 ` Hans Hagen
2008-10-29 18:41 ` Tobias Burnus
2008-10-29 18:55 ` Tobias Burnus
2008-10-29 21:47 ` Hans Hagen
2008-10-30 7:13 ` Peter Münster
2008-10-29 19:06 ` Hans Hagen
2008-10-29 19:44 ` Tobias Burnus
2008-10-29 21:32 ` Hans Hagen
2008-10-30 10:07 ` Tobias Burnus
2008-10-30 10:28 ` luigi scarso
2008-10-30 10:54 ` Hans Hagen
2008-10-29 19:08 ` Hans Hagen
2008-10-29 11:03 ` Hans Hagen
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