On 2017-03-08 at 23:59:30 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > > Apart from the necessity to recompile lualatex.fmt, which I had forgotten, > > I was kind of expecting all that was needed was put the new luatex in the > > user area, say inside ~/Library/texlive/2016/bin (would be > > ~/.texlive2016/bin on Linux I guess), and it would be picked up > > automatically when running luatex from the command line. > > No, that *cannot* work ... how should luatex find its initial texmf.cnf? > It uses a set of compiled in paths, plus those determined from the > location of the binary. > > You *can* put the luatex binary *anywhere*, but need to make sure that > somewhere a texmf.cnf is findable for luatex. > > Once it has its texmf.cnf, everything works with binaries far away. > > You could do the following: > * copy kpsewhich alongside the new luatex binary > * add that path to the front > * call: kpsewhich -show-path .cnf > > In my case I copied it to ~/bin, I got: > warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these > directories: > /home/norbert/bin:/home/norbert/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c:/home/norbert/bin/share/texmf-dist/web2c:/home/norbert/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/home/norbert/bin/texmf-local/web2c:/home/norbert/bin/texmf-dist/web2c:/home/norbert/bin/texmf/web2c:/home/norbert:/home/norbert/share/texmf-local/web2c:/home/norbert/share/texmf-dist/web2c:/home/norbert/share/texmf/web2c:/home/norbert/texmf-local/web2c:/home/norbert/texmf-dist/web2c:/home/norbert/texmf/web2c://texmf-local/web2c:/home:/home/share/texmf-local/web2c:/home/share/texmf-dist/web2c:/home/share/texmf/web2c:/home/texmf-local/web2c:/home/texmf-dist/web2c:/home/texmf/web2c. > > Which tells you the built-in search paths. > > You could drop an adjusted texmf.cnf into the directory of the new luatex > binary, and adjust the path elements so not to use SELFAUTOPARENT etc, > to get a working system. > > It is possible, but not trivial ;-)))
It should be sufficient to put a texmf.cnf file into ~/.texlive2016/bin which only contains one line: TEXMROOT = /usr/local/texlive/2016 Regards, Reinhard -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-3373112 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:[email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------
