On 8/16/2022 1:43 PM, amano.kenji via ntg-context wrote:
Even if I put the installation in an archive and make a linux package that
installs the archive, I still have to modify contextcnf.lua which isn't
intended to handle differing system-wide installation paths of various
POSIX-like operating systems.
And, I don't really know
* what the variables in contextcnf.lua mean and do.
* whether there is a way to override certain variables in contextcnf.lua with
another file. A separate override file is going to make it easy for linux
distributions to override certain variables in contextcnf.lua.
mtxrun --generate
reports all kind of locations where configurations files are looked for
one can also set environment variables and see what is used
mtxrun --variables
mtxrun --expansions
so there are plenty ways to configure and you can run
>mtxrun --configurations
which on my machine gives
system | resolved | file :
c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex/texmf-local/web2c/texmfcnf.lua
system | resolved | file :
c:/data/develop/tex-context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua
indicating that i use an additional configuration file
there are some boundary conditions:
- we use mtxrun as runner and that one used luatex as lua engine
- this means that mtxrun[.lua] has to be in the same path as the binary
in lmtx we even go a bit further:
- in lmtx there is mtxrun.lua
- as well as context.lua
- there are 'mtxrun' and 'context' binaries that are either copies or
symlinks to luametatex in the same path
- this is the same on unix and windows
in lmtx luametatex is also used as runner for mkiv when installed
on unix i normally just install the minimal tree and then either add the
bin path to the path or just run mtxrun fully qualified (actually always
for the whole system under /data/context)
Hans
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