Re: yearly current

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 2/15/2017 8:49 PM, j. van den hoff wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:08:53 +0100, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We're getting close to tex live freeze and part of that process is a
>> luatex release as well as a context snapshot. There have been no betas
>> for a while and the reason is that I've been cleaning up some code as
>> well as optimizing some bits. As a consequence it could be that there
>> are some issues with an upcoming luatex / context pair but because
>> there has been no real fundamental changes in the typesetting part
>> problems will be easy to sort out (like using an undefine lua function
>> or so).
>>
>> Anyway, if you are not that adventurous or depend on the current
>> version, you can best make a copy or not update from the garden too
>> eager, just wait till the lists reports no crashes.
>>
>> We will try to fix luatex/context things as fast as possible,
>
> hi,
>
> it _might_ be that I have been just bitten by this (or it is completely
> unrelated ;-)): I have previously installed standalone context on a mac
> w/o problems and am using it just fine.
>
> but today I moved my current document project to a ubuntu machine for
> testing purposes. since there seems to be only an ancient `context'
> provided via apt-get (from 2015) I just installed the standalone on the
> ubuntu machine, too, following the instructions as good I could. context
> and luatex point to the executables in
> /usr/local/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin etc.
>
> so it _seems_ to be set up correctly: but the compile run for the
> document (compiling just fine on the mac/older context installation)
> crashes on the ubuntu with a last line:
>
> clearontext     | fatal error: no return code, message: luatex:
> execution interrupted
>
> (w/o trailing linefeed, too...).
>
> if I can provide further info, please let me know.

it depends ... we're talking about luatex 1.0.3 (not on the garden yet) 
and a not yet published context update ... so it must be something 
different at your end

Hans


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