LuaTeX beta-0.60.0 on Mac OS X Tiger (was: Latest beta...)
Dear Mac users, according to the latest findings it seems that natively compiled LuaTeX still works on Mac OS X Tiger, but the cross-compiled one (compiled on 64-bit Mac OS X Snow Leopard) won't work on Tiger since the version beta-0.60.0. However, users report that it still runs perfectly fine on Leopard. Michael has sent me a new binary compiled on PPC; any user of Tiger on Intel (Willi?) that would like to use the new beta should sent me his own binary. But in any case it would be great if somebody would figure out the reason why the new LuaTeX fails to work on older macs. Before we were first able to cross-compile, Arthur had to suggest quite some changes in LuaTeX source, so maybe some of newly added libraries or some configuration started messing up things recently. Based on some assumptions: - there are not too many Mac OS X 10.4 machines around - there are not too many testers of the latest-and-greatest LuaTeX version (apart from ConTeXt community) - if there appears to be a combination of both, users will either stick to some older TeX or at least they will compile luatex on their own (again, apart from ConTeXt community) I expect that there will probably not be much more feedback about the problem, but it would be really really great to fix it. I have no access to Tiger at the moment. I hope that Dick will be able to provide some more feedback once he comes to it. Until that is resolved: if osx-intel/osx-ppc users want to have a working version of minimals, you'll have to provide luatex version on your own. Mojca On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 05:40, Michael Green wrote:
Mojca Miklavec writes:
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 21:24, Willi Egger wrote:
I just updated the latest beta in a completely new tree:
I get now the following message:
.../lua60/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin/context: line 2: 1634 Bus error mtxrun --script context "$@" [snip] This might as well be a mac-intel-only luatex-related problem (something for Taco in any case), but I cannot reproduce it yet.
Mojca
I hit a similar problem on a ppc mac. So it's probably not an intel-only thing. The .firstsetup script crashes. It worked fine through at least March 23, for what it's worth. Here's a transcript I have a crash log too, if that would help. sudo ./first-setup.sh receiving file list ... done bin/ bin/mtx-update.lua bin/mtxrun bin/texlua wrote 18489 bytes read 4918220 bytes 229614.37 bytes/sec total size is 6550101 speedup is 1.33 MTXrun | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTOLOC' set to '/Users/michaelgreen/Applications/context/bin' MTXrun | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTODIR' set to '/Users/michaelgreen/Applications/context' MTXrun | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTOPARENT' set to '/Users/michaelgreen/Applications' MTXrun | fileio: variable 'TEXMFCNF' set to '{$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/share,}/texmf{- local,.local,}/web2c}' MTXrun | fileio: no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) MTXrun | using script: ./bin/mtx-update.lua MTXrun | state: loaded MTXrun | update: start ./first-setup.sh: line 69: 5194 Bus error mtxrun --verbose --script ./bin/mtx-update.lua -- update --make --force --engine=all --context=beta --texroot=$PWD/tex $@
Hi, sorry for my slow responding rate. I just compiled luatex 0.60.0 native on Tiger 10.11. - After installing and updating it looks like that it works!. i send the binary to Mojca offline. Kind regards Willi On 17 Apr 2010, at 18:41, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Dear Mac users,
according to the latest findings it seems that natively compiled LuaTeX still works on Mac OS X Tiger, but the cross-compiled one (compiled on 64-bit Mac OS X Snow Leopard) won't work on Tiger since the version beta-0.60.0. However, users report that it still runs perfectly fine on Leopard.
Michael has sent me a new binary compiled on PPC; any user of Tiger on Intel (Willi?) that would like to use the new beta should sent me his own binary.
But in any case it would be great if somebody would figure out the reason why the new LuaTeX fails to work on older macs. Before we were first able to cross-compile, Arthur had to suggest quite some changes in LuaTeX source, so maybe some of newly added libraries or some configuration started messing up things recently.
Based on some assumptions: - there are not too many Mac OS X 10.4 machines around - there are not too many testers of the latest-and-greatest LuaTeX version (apart from ConTeXt community) - if there appears to be a combination of both, users will either stick to some older TeX or at least they will compile luatex on their own (again, apart from ConTeXt community) I expect that there will probably not be much more feedback about the problem, but it would be really really great to fix it. I have no access to Tiger at the moment. I hope that Dick will be able to provide some more feedback once he comes to it. Until that is resolved: if osx-intel/osx-ppc users want to have a working version of minimals, you'll have to provide luatex version on your own.
Mojca
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 05:40, Michael Green wrote:
Mojca Miklavec writes:
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 21:24, Willi Egger wrote:
I just updated the latest beta in a completely new tree:
I get now the following message:
.../lua60/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin/context: line 2: 1634 Bus error mtxrun --script context "$@" [snip] This might as well be a mac-intel-only luatex-related problem (something for Taco in any case), but I cannot reproduce it yet.
Mojca
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I hit a similar problem on a ppc mac. So it's probably not an intel-only thing. The .firstsetup script crashes. It worked fine through at least March 23, for what it's worth. Here's a transcript I have a crash log too, if that would help. sudo ./first-setup.sh receiving file list ... done bin/ bin/mtx-update.lua bin/mtxrun bin/texlua wrote 18489 bytes read 4918220 bytes 229614.37 bytes/sec total size is 6550101 speedup is 1.33 MTXrun | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTOLOC' set to '/Users/michaelgreen/Applications/context/bin' MTXrun | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTODIR' set to '/Users/michaelgreen/Applications/context' MTXrun | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTOPARENT' set to '/Users/michaelgreen/Applications' MTXrun | fileio: variable 'TEXMFCNF' set to '{$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/share,}/texmf{- local,.local,}/web2c}' MTXrun | fileio: no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) MTXrun | using script: ./bin/mtx-update.lua MTXrun | state: loaded MTXrun | update: start ./first-setup.sh: line 69: 5194 Bus error mtxrun -- verbose --script ./bin/mtx-update.lua -- update --make --force --engine=all --context=beta --texroot=$PWD/ tex $@
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Dear Tiger users of ConTeXt minimals, I have another tiny request for you. Can you please download luatex version 3520 and 3559 for your platform from http://dl.contextgarden.net/misc/luatex/ rename it into luatex and do chmod +x luatex to make sure that it's executable. Then replace that version of luatex with the one in your ConTeXt distribution. It would be nice to know which versions fail to work to make it easier to debug. Thanks a lot, Mojca PS for Dick: this is the promissed version of cross-compiled LuaTeX - the version 3590 is the one equivalent to the latest beta that certainly fails to work (Bus error).
Hi Mojca, I downloaded as asked. Version 3520: luatools --generate does generate the database. context --make all results in a bus error. mtxrun results in a bus error. Version 3559: luatools --generate results in a bus error. mtxrun results in a bus error. :-( So we are not yet further I am afraid. Kind regards Willi On 20 Apr 2010, at 12:48, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Dear Tiger users of ConTeXt minimals,
I have another tiny request for you. Can you please download luatex version 3520 and 3559 for your platform from http://dl.contextgarden.net/misc/luatex/ rename it into luatex and do chmod +x luatex to make sure that it's executable. Then replace that version of luatex with the one in your ConTeXt distribution.
It would be nice to know which versions fail to work to make it easier to debug.
Thanks a lot, Mojca
PS for Dick: this is the promissed version of cross-compiled LuaTeX - the version 3590 is the one equivalent to the latest beta that certainly fails to work (Bus error).
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