Re: [NTG-context] trouble starting context

Jesse Alama wrote:

Taco Hoekwater writes:

...

I have:

LUAINPUTS=.;$TEXMF/tex/{context,plain/base,generic}//:$TEXMF/scripts/context/lua TEXMFSCRIPTS=.;$TEXMF/tex/{context,plain/base,generic,}//;$TEXMF/scripts/context//

and I strongly suspect both are needed. After adjusting the value(s), you will have to rerun luatools --generate.

I modified texmf.cnf to give these variables those values, but I still get the same error, even after luatools --generate. Further suggestions?

Maybe $ env MPX_INPUT_TRACE=3 context ... will give some hint about what mtxrun is doing.

By the way, I initially modified the "local" texmf.cnf file

texlive/2008/texmf.cnf

rather than the "gloal" configuration file

texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

because the former file says that it should contain changes to the latter:

<---snip---> % If you want to configure something to a value different then the one % in texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, just put the changed value here. <---snip--->

But I noticed that when I ran luatools --generate, it apparently ignored this "local" texmf.cnf file; it read only the "global" texmf.cnf file.

This seems to be a difference of opinion between luatools and kpathsea, (luatools should probably be adjusted to behave the same as kpathsea).

I inferred that from the output:

LuaTools | error unable to locate texmfcnf.lua LuaTools | loading /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf LuaTools | preparing configuration for /Users/alama/luatex-cache/context/79597d0cc507e8e510dd517f8850b2ca/trees/ae181585be5454a57ae25fb95c3ccbef.tma LuaTools | saving configuration in /Users/alama/luatex-cache/context/79597d0cc507e8e510dd517f8850b2ca/trees/ae181585be5454a57ae25fb95c3ccbef.tma LuaTools | compiling configuration to /Users/alama/luatex-cache/context/79597d0cc507e8e510dd517f8850b2ca/trees/ae181585be5454a57ae25fb95c3ccbef.tmc ...etc.

Thus I modified the "global" configuration file instead. By the way, the variables LUAINPUTS and TEXMFSCRIPTS already had values:

LUAINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/scripts/{$progname,$engine,}/lua//;$TEXINPUTS TEXMFSCRIPTS = $TEXMF/scripts/{$engine,$progname,}//

But I overwrote those to give them the values you recommended, to no avail, unfortunately.

Jesse

Best wishes, Taco