Re: yearly current

["j. van den hoff" <veedeehjay@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 22:00:52 +0100, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> 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

ok, thanks. so I misunderstood... any advice how to proceed regarding my  
problem? the error message doesn't mean anything to me, so I do not have  
any idea how to fix this (even if it were a stupid oversight on my part)  
...

>
> Hans
>
>
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