Re: Minimals (solved)

["Jörg Hagmann" <joerg.hagmann@unibas.ch>]

Mojca has sorted out my problems with minimal installations.  Since our 
correspondence was private, I would like to share the conclusions:

I had old and new installations and "source /path/oldtex/tex/setuptex 
/path/oldtex/tex" in the bash startup file (.profile or .bashrc). When I 
switched to the new installation, I changed TEXROOT (by source 
/path/newtex ...). This seems to generate a mixture of  TEX... 
variables, including some pointing to the "oldtex" installation.

Everything works fine if TEXROOT is set in a virgin shell that hasn't 
seen a "source ..." command yet.

According to Mojca, it's a bit more complicated. I copy her answer to my 
question, whether the above is correct:

Not completely. Copy and rename the old setuptex to the new
distribution or the new setuptex to the old distribution (you need to
rename it in order to prevent rewriting the file next time when you
use it) or use something like
    source /Applications/newtex/tex/setuptex ~/context/tex
and it should work.

Cheers, Jörg

Hans Hagen wrote:
> luigi scarso wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Jörg Hagmann <joerg.hagmann@unibas.ch 
>> <mailto:joerg.hagmann@unibas.ch>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>            mtx-context.lua:1358: attempt to call field 'extendbanner' 
>> (a nil
>>            value)
>>
>>         hmm , never see this.
>>         I believe that if you make a fresh minimals install and you have
>>         the same error,
>>         it's a minimals problem.
>>
>>     That's what I thought (I freshly installed twice). But I'll try
>>     again on Friday ...
>>     Thanks everybody.
>
> can you search your disk (path) for other occurences of mtxrun and 
> luatools?
>
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