Re: Is the lastest beta broken?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 4/14/2013 7:05 AM, Tim Li wrote:
> Today, I updated my ConTeXt standalone but after that, if I ran
> `context' it would give these message:
>
> d:\>context
> context
> mtxrun          | forcing cache reload
> resolvers       | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path
> 'C:/Users/peng/texmf/web2c' from specification 'home:texmf/web2c'
> resolvers       | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path
> 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin/' from specification 'selfautoloc:'
> resolvers       | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path
> 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c' from
> specification 'selfautoloc:/share/texmf-local/web2c'
> resolvers       | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path
> 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin/share/texmf-dist/web2c' from
> specification 'selfautoloc:/share/texmf-dist/web2c'
> resolvers       | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path
> 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin/texmf-local/web2c' from specification
> 'selfautoloc:/texmf-local/web2c'
> resolvers       | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path
> 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/bin/texmf-dist/web2c' from specification
> 'selfautoloc:/texmf-dist/web2c'
> resolvers       | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path
> 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/' from specification 'selfautodir:'
> resolvers       | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path
> 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/share/texmf-local/web2c' from specification
> 'selfautodir:/share/texmf-local/web2c'
> resolvers       | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path
> 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/share/texmf-dist/web2c' from specification
> 'selfautodir:/share/texmf-dist/web2c'
> resolvers       | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path
> 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/texmf-local/web2c' from specification
> 'selfautodir:/texmf-local/web2c'
> resolvers       | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path
> 'D:/context/tex/texmf-mswin/texmf-dist/web2c' from specification
> 'selfautodir:/texmf-dist/web2c'
> resolvers       | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path
> 'D:/context/tex/../texmf-local/web2c' from specification
> 'selfautoparent:/../texmf-local/web2c'
> resolvers       | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on weird path
> 'D:/context/tex/' from specification 'selfautoparent:'
> resolvers       | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path
> 'D:/context/tex/share/texmf-local/web2c' from specification
> 'selfautoparent:/share/texmf-local/web2c'
> resolvers       | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path
> 'D:/context/tex/share/texmf-dist/web2c' from specification
> 'selfautoparent:/share/texmf-dist/web2c'
> resolvers       | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path
> 'D:/context/tex/texmf-local/web2c' from specification
> 'selfautoparent:/texmf-local/web2c'
> resolvers       | resolving | looking for 'texmfcnf.lua' on given path
> 'D:/context/tex/texmf-dist/web2c' from specification
> 'selfautoparent:/texmf-dist/web2c'
> resolvers       | resolving |
> resolvers       | resolving | warning: no lua configuration files found
> resolvers       | resolving | no texmf paths are defined (using TEXMF)
> resolvers       | resolving |
> mtxrun          | the resolver databases are not present or outdated
> resolvers       | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'lua'
> resolvers       | resolving | remembering file 'mtx-context.lua'
> resolvers       | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'lua'
> resolvers       | resolving | remembering file 'mtx-contexts.lua'
> resolvers       | resolving | remembered file 'mtx-context.lua'
> resolvers       | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'lua'
> resolvers       | resolving | remembering file 'mtx-t-context.lua'
> resolvers       | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'lua'
> resolvers       | resolving | remembering file 'mtx-t-contexts.lua'
> resolvers       | resolving | remembered file 'mtx-t-context.lua'
> resolvers       | resolving | using suffix based filetype 'lua'
> resolvers       | resolving | remembering file 'context.lua'
> mtxrun          | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua'
> d:\>
>
> Is this suggesting that the new beta is broken? If not, how can I solve
> this problem? I like ConTeXt very much!

you have to make sure you have the latest ... there has been a change in 
texlive: no texmf but texmf-dist and the engines have the paths 
mentioned above hardcoded (just ignore the weird paths) .. now, as the 
garden but also existing installations use texmf this breaks virtually 
all installations: the hardcoded paths in the engines have no 'texmf'

however, the good news is that mojca made sure that texmf is back in the 
low leven hard coded engine spec but it may take a day or so for 
binaries that were made without it to get updated

(in context we could use a different more compact spec but then users 
who have used the weird paths in the past will have the problem that 
their adapted cnf files are not found)

Hans

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