On 2017-05-12 at 12:39:51 -0400, John Rinehart wrote:

 > Please note, also, the failure of lualatex to use the .latexmkrc
 > file.

Mine looks like this:

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# -*- Perl -*-

$pdflatex = 'lualatex --shell-escape --synctex=1 %O %S';
$pdf_mode = 1;
$dvi_mode = $postscript_mode = 0;
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Omit --shell-escape if you don't need it.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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