From: Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: LMTX and soft links (Linux)
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 21:52:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <757a2203-3560-5dc8-99ce-7043fa0bd173@gmx.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKyqqabiVfJ6a5jLAf=Rn3vExYJ2-ykhNbHEV7+YqNNiC-Q8nQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 7/5/20 9:14 PM, Jairo A. del Rio wrote:
> I'm using both LMTX from the ConTeXt standalone installation and a TeX
> Live installation. Since I'm using binaries from the standalone (and
> added LMTX to path, etc.), I created soft links in texmf-modules via
>
> ln -s /usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex ~/lmtx/tex/texmf-modules/tex
>
> and similar (lmtx is my directory for the standalone).
>
> LuaTeX finds files without any issues. However LuaMetaTeX gives the
> following error:
>
> runtime error : input file (name of file) is not found, quitting
>
> The same result is for modules, .sty files and .tex files. Is this
> intentional, a bug in LMTX, or is a better solution possible? In case
> it's useful, I'm working with Ubuntu 20.04. Thank you a lot.
Hi Jairo,
I experience something very similar in Linux too.
LMTX follows softlinks to files, but no softlink to directories.
I don’t know why this happens, but it behaves this way.
Just in case it helps,
Pablo
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-05 19:14 Jairo A. del Rio
2020-07-05 19:52 ` Pablo Rodriguez [this message]
2020-07-05 20:16 ` Jairo A. del Rio
2020-07-06 17:26 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2020-07-06 17:45 ` Hans Hagen
2020-07-06 18:19 ` Pablo Rodriguez
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