[A] My experience is similar to Hans van der Meer's (quoted below). luatools --generate does what I think it's supposed to. luatools luat-env.lua returns a blank line. [B] I followed Thomas Schmitz's instructions and used the source .luatex method, for what it's worth. http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/ 20071002.175335.21873a03.en.html .luatex contains: export TEXMFCACHE="/tmp" export TEXMFCNF="/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c" export TEXMF="{/Users/michaelgreen/.texlive2007/texmf-config,/Users/ michaelgreen/.texlive2007/texmf-var,/Users/michaelgreen/Library/ texmf,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/ texmf-var,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,/usr/local/texlive/2007/../ texmf-local,!!/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist}" export LUAINPUTS="{/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base,/ usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua,/usr/local/ texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua}" [C] Is there a chance that this is a permissions issue? I had to make luatools.lua executable by hand. None of the other files in that directory are executable, where 'that' directory is: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua mjg

From: Hans van der Meer Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Unable to generate luatex formats

Same thing here. "luatools luat-env.lua" gives an empty line. After "luatools --generate" again the same. And I have TEXMFCNF and TEXMF defined in .bashrc TEXMFCNF="/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c" TEXMF="{/Users/hans/TeX/texmf-private,/usr/local/texlive/texmf- context,/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf,/ usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf- dist,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc,/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf- var}"

So there must be something else amiis.

Hans van der Meer