[NTG-context] LMTX and soft links (Linux)

[Jairo A. del Rio]

Indeed, it works. A fast "cp -rs" solved it. Anyways, I'd rather prefer a
less "manual" method. Thank you very much, Pablo.

Jairo :)

El dom., 5 de jul. de 2020 a la(s) 14:52, Pablo Rodriguez (oinos at gmx.es)
escribió:

> On 7/5/20 9:14 PM, Jairo A. del Rio wrote:
> > I'm using both LMTX from the ConTeXt standalone installation and a TeX
> > Live installation. Since I'm using binaries from the standalone (and
> > added LMTX to path, etc.), I created soft links in texmf-modules via
> >
> > ln -s /usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex ~/lmtx/tex/texmf-modules/tex
> >
> > and similar (lmtx is my directory for the standalone).
> >
> > LuaTeX finds files without any issues. However LuaMetaTeX gives the
> > following error:
> >
> > runtime error : input file (name of file) is not found, quitting
> >
> > The same result is for modules, .sty files and .tex files. Is this
> > intentional, a bug in LMTX, or is a better solution possible? In case
> > it's useful, I'm working with Ubuntu 20.04. Thank you a lot.
>
> Hi Jairo,
>
> I experience something very similar in Linux too.
>
> LMTX follows softlinks to files, but no softlink to directories.
>
> I don’t know why this happens, but it behaves this way.
>
> Just in case it helps,
>
> Pablo
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