Hi, Hans Hagen wrote:
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
In TL2008, luatools is a wrapper script.
#!/bin/sh texmfstart luatools.lua "$@"
That is by my suggestion. After all the other manual labor texlive users will have go through just to get mkiv running, I did not want to scare them even more by forcing them to use --selfupdate. Especially since --selfupdate fails in a non-zero amount of cases, and if that would happen to a user not on ntg-context they would be utterly lost.
having a 'copy' or 'symlink' is indeed the best for luatools and mtxrun, and using texmfstart for it is at some point going to fail
This would work fine if --selfupdate was totally reliable, but it isn't. Whenever a new library appears in the distro there is a chance that selfupdate will fail. I've had that happen a number of times. It is ok for me (I know what to do), but not acceptable casual users. Best wishes, Taco