[NTG-context] Re: getting LuaTeX to work

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 6/24/2024 12:50 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Am 24.06.24 um 11:11 schrieb Hans Hagen:
>> On 6/24/2024 10:02 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>>> Am 24.06.24 um 09:31 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context:
>>>>> Does it work without --luatex, i.e. does it work for LMTX but not 
>>>>> MkIV?
>>>>>
>>>>> mtxrun --generate --luatex works for me (on OSX), but context 
>>>>> --make --luatex doesn’t since forever.
>>>> Do you have a bin then? And ran mtxrun --generate --luatex ?
>>>
>>> Sorry, I didn’t want to hijack the thread.
>>>
>>> Good hint – of course I don’t have a luatex binary besides that from 
>>> TeX live 2023 that doesn’t work with latest LMTX/MkIV.
>> hm, normally it should because nothign gets added to luatex but maybe 
>> one of these 'change default behaviour startup due to whataver 
>> security policy' interferes (not much we can do about that apart from 
>> trying to be in sync)
> 
> TeX Live binaries are a tangled web of symlinks, at least on OSX.
> 
> I finally found the real binary in 
> /usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/universal-darwin/, but symlinking it into my 
> ~/context/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin doesn’t help, I get:
> 
> $ context --make --luatex
> mtx-context     | redirect luametatex -> luatex: luatex --luaonly 
> --socket "/Users/hraban/context/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/mtxrun.lua" 
> --script mtx-context --make --luatex --redirected
> mtxrun          | unknown script 'mtx-context.lua' or 'mtx-mtx-context.lua'
> 
> … the same "unknown script" error as without the symlink, when the 
> luatex binary is found on the PATH. And yes, "mtxrun --generate 
> --luatex" worked.
> 
> Might it be a conflict of texmfcnf.lua ?
could be ... there was some change between tl2023 and tl 2024 and then 
again after the tl 2024 release

and indeed this symlink chain is a problem, hard to follow also, and 
afaik a long term side effect of a gwtex / mactex / texlive transition

but i guess you can just install and then adapt the path to your liking, 
no need to operate in the texlive structure

Hans

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