[Dev-luatex] How to build LuaTeX format files?

[Nicola]

In article <4A452351.4050004 at elzevir.fr>,
 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr> 
 wrote:

> Nicola a écrit :
> > luatex -ini luatex.ini dump
> > 
> > and I get
> > 
> > This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.40.6-2009062619 (Web2C 2009) (INITEX)
> > (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/luatex.ini
> > (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/plain/config/etex.ini
> > (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/plain/etex/etex.src
> > 
> > ! e-TeX  fatal error: this file can be processed only in extended mode;
> >   did you perhaps forget the asterisk?
> > 
> Porbably your luatex.ini is too old. Try to update using tlmgr or grab it from
> TL svn.

Yeah, sudo tlmgr update --all indeed did the trick.

Thank you,
Nicola