Oliver Buerschaper wrote:
Obviously, the problem is the symbolic link because LuaTeX tries and finds argv[0] in $PATH but doesn't resolve /usr/texbin to its actual location on disk. It's clear that in this situation there can't be any difference between the distribution-independent syntax of calling luatex and the direct invocation.
Do you think LuaTeX's path discovery mechanism could be adapted to handle symbolic links?
there is lfs.symlinkattributes but i'm somewhat reluctant to usinmg platform specific things; if i have time i'll see if this function returns something useful Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------