On 8.2.2014 2:36, Ken Moffat wrote: > In the current instructions for Tex Live, we have --without-luatex. > > This is wrong, the current option is --disable-luatex. But I have > a question: someone must have thought it was a good idea to disable > luatex. Why ? > > The binary installer includes luatex, and it appears to build fine > from source. As with latex, some very simple examples I found work, > others don't, but running lualatex on a "good" minimal example > provides a displayable PDF. > > I was originally going to move the corrected --disable-luatex to > an optional command, but at the moment I cannot see any reason why a > user who is going to the trouble of building TeX from source would > want to do that. > > Anybody like to offer a reason ? > > Attaching the simple example (from StackExchange), and the PDF, in > case anyone wants an example. > > ĸen > > >
I believe it was left from the time when LFS didn't have Lua package and the build might have failed unless the switch was used. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
