On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com> wrote:
On 19 oct. 08, at 21:50, luigi scarso wrote:

With the finger crossed I will start tomorrow a project in mkiv

Good luck, or as you say in Italy "in bocca al lupo!"…
(and the answer should be  "crepi il lupo")
YES! I did it step by step as you say above (mutatis mutandis, that is by replacing texmf-linux by texmf-osx-intel): and now I have an mkiv in the minimal tree that works fine: the file basic-test.tex results in:
This file has been typeset on October 19, 2008 at 23:56, mkiv, ConTeXt version 
2008.10.17 10:41, LuaTeX revision 1, (LuaTeX date stamp 2008101818)
Many many thanks! Grazie mille…
Should be a good thing have minimals-beta and minimasl in a separated dir,
and test if the samething works in minimals and  minimals-beta.

A last question: it is really necessary to say (in the appropriate directory) 
. setuptex
Every time your $PATH has not 
/opt/luatex/minimals-beta/tex/texmf-linux/bin
(check with echo $PATH)
For sure, at the beginning of a session :
context --generate
this clear the cache
Tee cache is  /opt/luatex/minimals-beta/tex/texmf-cache
so it's local to the minimals-beta
I do this every time I have a suspect that I have made) something is wrong,
and at the at the beginning of a session .

context --make
this make all the formats.
It's need every time you change something in the core, like luatex binary or some files
in base , not every time you want to make a pdf from your file

To typeset your file, you should use
context yourfile.tex

--
luigi