On 02/08/14 04:44, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> 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 ?
> At the time that was added, lua was not in the book.
>
> -- Bruce
This may have been the intention but it had no effect as lua source is
included with
luatex in the texlive source and as pointed out the option is --disable
not --without.
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