Re: [NTG-context] Updating to Beta Builds of ConTeXt / LuaTeX from tlcontrib breaks MacTeX

First off, let me say that you all are the nicest set of developers and project team members I have ever seen! If I had asked our developers about an issue in an alpha build, they would have told me where to go while raising a particular finger in an effort to say what, I think, is something like, "You're #1!" I appreciate the offer to roll back a build, but please! This is how this all goes, right? Anyway, following the instructions on the tlcontrib.metatex.org (or a link from there) for restoring the "stable" versions, I got the fabulous "/usr/texbin/mtxrun:9359: attempt to concatenate local 'v' (a table value)" on every ConTeXt command that I tried. Lacking the appetite (and time) to go much further, I tried forcing the uninstall of everything and then I reinstalled everything using tlmgr. It all seemed to go whll, but still no avail. After restoring from tlcontrib and getting only back to nowhere, I just nuked it all and am reinstalling. I'm happy to try again, if you all would think I have a better than... oh... 30% chance of not having to nuke another time. If not, my next stop is the rsync method. After that, I may have to return, hat in hand, to LaTeX and check back with you guys in a month or so, just to see where MacTeX support is at. BTW: I really like this community and I very much like both what ConTeXt and LuaTeX have to offer. In my spare time (-4 hours a day or so, more if I take my meds), I'd be happy to contribute. I'm much more of a hack and know next to nothing about bare TeX, although I feel as though I've done the impossible with my own set of macros. I may be able to take on some documentation tasks and I also fancy myself a better-than-average beta tester: not bitchy, test everything all of the way through, report everything, patient, etc. If all-ya-all want to point me at something that is in need of such activity, I'd be happy to look at it. I may just see what can be added to ConTeXt Garden, but it's hard to know where to start, what's obsolete, what's good but incomplete, and what's entirely absent. I would need more time actually using it to truly help, unless someone were to give me instruction. Best Regards, Andrew Starks Tightrope Media Systems Co-Founder 800 Transfer Road, Suite 1B, Saint Paul MN 55114 866 866-4118, 201 On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

Dear Andrew,

Sorry for top-posting, just a few remarks:

- I don't see anything basically wrong with your procedure.

- I didn't try it yet, but after Taco released luatex 0.64.0 somebody already pointed out that the "current" version of ConTeXt is not compatible with the latest version of LuaTeX. I can roll back the luatex packages on tlcontrib if needed, but I would prefer to wait for Taco's response. (He needs to approve any change anyway.) So it might be that any trouble you experience is a sole consequence of that incompatibility. But I didn't check anything yet.

- luatools doesn't make much sense in post-TL-2010. It has been replaced by mtxrun entirely. I thought that luatools would still work the same way as mtxrun though ... but maybe mtxrun has the same symptoms.

- Does it help if you replace "~" with "/Users/yourname" in texmfcnf.lua? During the ConTeXt conference (and that was more recent than the current version of ConTeXt) the tilde didn't expand properly in some cases and I'm still not sure if it works flawlessly now.

- You may also try to install ConTeXt minimals in parallel:

   rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/first-setup.sh .    ./first-setup.sh    . tex/setuptex

Mojca

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 21:00, Andrew Starks wrote:

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At Aditya's suggestion, I'm cross-posting this from tex.stackexchange.com

[Executive Summary:

I might be missing something really simple and I might be overcomplicating something really easy. In short:

1: I installed MacTeX 2010. 2: I updated all packages using the normal trees. 3: I changed my TEXMFHOME variable in /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf.cnf to "~/src/texmf", which is where I keep my custom modules/templates/packages. (This is normally within our github source control, but hasn't been yet.) and moved the content from the old directory to the new. 4: I was beating my head against the wall, trying to make font selection work using typescriptfile/typescript as well as simplefont. The closest I could get was with simplefont and Palatino spewing garbage text. 5: I decided to try "http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/" with tlmgr using "sudo tlmgr --repository http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010 update -all" 6: I "sudo texconfig rehash"ed (seemed okay), "sudo mtxrun --generate" (seemed okay). Then I "sudo luatools --generate" and got something that ended with " MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'" 7: Just typing "luatools" results in: "MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'" 8: I tried editing the two texmfcnf.lua files that I found with:

 return {            content = {                    TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',                    TEXMFHOME  = '~/src/texmf-trms',            },            TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',    }

But had no effect.

That is where I'm at right now. Whenever I try to compile, I get:

MTXrun | warning: no format found, forcing remake (commandline driven) MTXrun | running command: luatools --generate MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'

MTXrun | running command: luatools --make --compile cont-en MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'

MTXrun | error, no format found with name: cont-en, aborting MTXrun | total runtime: 0.321

The rest of this email is a more verbose description. Hopefully this helps you and me, as well. (if only in the documentation department. :))

] /endexecutive summary %:)

Copied then updated from: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5454/updating-to-beta-builds-of-conte...

On a fresh install of MacTeX 2010, I was having issues with `mtxrun` finding fonts and with fonts in general.

I decided to try to dl the betas. In an earlier question(http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/5405/switching-to-context-minimals-mi... (Thanks Kahled!) I found that the ConTeXt minimals were not proper in this scenario.

So I followed the advice and used this repository. After running:

   sudo tlmgr --repository http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010 update -all

...I did everything that I could think of to update the system at various stages (I'm sure not everything was neutral or helpful)...

   sudo texconfig rehash    sudo texconfig init    sudo mtxrun --generate    sudo luatools --generate

The last command is the issue, as it generates:

   MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'

In my search on the interweb, I found that perhaps `texmfcnf.lua` needed the following:

   return {            content = {                    TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',                    TEXMFHOME  = '~/Library/texmf-trms',            },            TEXMFCACHE = '~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var',    }

I did this to the file that I located in `/usr/local/texlive/2010/`. I later found evidence that perhaps another `texmfcnf.lua` file needed this golden block of code, but I could not find another instance of this file.

So... whassup? It's a clean install if MacTeX 2010. I wonder what I'm missing.

Once this is solved, I'll post another question about fonts, as I have yet to get those working with LuaTeX as the engine and `simplefonts` as the method. `mtxrun` never has anything in its list of fonts (`mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=*` or any conceivable variation) and most font choices don't register at all, or in the odd case of Palatino, result in garbage text. I have my `OSFONTS` variable set to `/Library/Fonts`. But alas, for another question. I only post it here in case the two issues are related.

Thanks everyone!

UPDATE:

I ran `sudo luatex --generate --verbose`

Here is the output:

  MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'SELFAUTOLOC' set to '/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin' MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'SELFAUTODIR' set to '/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin' MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'SELFAUTOPARENT' set to '/usr/local/texlive/2010' MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'TEXMFCNF' set to '' MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'TEXMF' set to '' MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'TEXOS' set to 'bin' MTXrun | resolvers MTXrun | resolvers: loading configuration file '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmfcnf.lua' MTXrun | resolvers MTXrun | resolvers: loading configuration file '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua' MTXrun | resolvers MTXrun | resolvers: locating list of '/Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms' (runtime) MTXrun | resolvers: handler 'tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms' -> 'locators' -> 'path=/Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms | noscheme=false | query= | scheme=tree | original=tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms | fragment= | authority=' MTXrun | resolvers: hash 'tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms' appended MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-project' (cached) MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-fonts' (cached) MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-local' (cached) MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-context' (cached) MTXrun | resolvers: locating list of '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf' (cached) MTXrun | resolvers: tex locator '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf' found MTXrun | resolvers: hash '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf' appended MTXrun | resolvers: locating list of '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist' (cached) MTXrun | resolvers: tex locator '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist' found MTXrun | resolvers: hash '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist' appended MTXrun | resolvers MTXrun | resolvers: handler 'tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms' -> 'hashers' -> 'path=/Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms | noscheme=false | query= | scheme=tree | original=tree:////Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms | fragment= | authority=' MTXrun | resolvers: scanning path '/Users/andrew/src/texmf-trms' MTXrun | resolvers: 596 files found on 114 directories with 62 uppercase remappings MTXrun | resolvers: loading 'files' for '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf' from '/Users/andrew/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/210a81d6dcb1059dc80fab3f5470ab7a/trees/1240e363db2f4c53de58379d2b0c6f6b' MTXrun | resolvers: loading 'files' for '/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist' from '/Users/andrew/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/210a81d6dcb1059dc80fab3f5470ab7a/trees/26993469c6208234eef0d0acf8456c4d' MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua' MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua' MTXrun | resolvers: remembering file 'mtx-base.lua' MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua' MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'

Okay, I see where it's loading `'/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua'`.

Given that my TEXMFHOME tds is set  to `~/src/texmf-trms` I edited it to say this within `content:`

   -- ORIG: TEXMFHOME       = "$HOME/texmf", -- "tree:///$HOME/texmf"       TEXMFHOME       = "~/src/texmf-trms", -- "tree:///$HOME/texmf"

...and this after, but before `return:` closes:

   -- ORIG: TEXMFCACHE  = "$SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-cache", -- for old times sake    TEXMFCACHE  = "~/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var", -- for old times sake

Since I did not change the TEXMFCACHE setting.

(As you may be able to tell by now, I don't know what I'm doing. :) )

Running `sudo luatools --generate --verbose` had the same effect, ending with:

   MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'    MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'    MTXrun | resolvers: remembering file 'mtx-base.lua'    MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'    MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'

I tried `sudo mtxrun --generate` which seemed to work, but did not affect `luatools` in any way. I've tried `rehash`ing, then `mtxrun` then `luatools`. No joy.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

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