On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 10:01:55PM -0600, Alan Braslau via ntg-context wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2023 20:51:58 -0400 (EDT)
> Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
>
> > Did you source the `setuptex` script, which sets the correct path.
>
> My PATH is set to
> PATH=./context/tex/texmf-freebsd-amd64/bin:/home/MyAccount/context/tex/texmf-freebsd-amd64/bin:...
>
> If my current working directory ("./") is a project that contains its
> very own subdirectory ./context/, then this is used to typeset the
> project. If not, it falls back on my own general standalone
> $HOME/context/, and if that does not exist, then it falls back on, say,
> a systemwide TeXlive installation.
>
> This is all that is needed to have many versions coexist.
>
> Alan
Hello Alan, my PATH is set to:
PATH=/home/ce/context-install/bin:/home/ce/context-install/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin:/opt/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH;
export PATH
because not by going by TeX Live infrastructure only, but rather
by standalone resolvers that's exactly what the additional steps to
install that very same standalone required, a folder
texmf-linux-64/bin, which it's pretty much self-explanatory
And I already mentioned the above earlier
Again
Do we actually need to list all kpsea variable here ?? fine
Here are some of them, which are really irrelevant by the way, but just
adding info
$ kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFROOT
/opt/texlive/2023
$ kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFDIST
/opt/texlive/2023/texmf-dist
$ kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFLOCAL
/opt/texlive/texmf-local
Now let's take a peek inside the TeX Live infrastructure-only, shall
we? (just for additional info as TeX Live is ocnsidered one of the
many scripts out there, right? One is interested in the standalone in
the end)
LICENSE.CTAN bin install-tl.log texmf-config texmfcnf.lua
LICENSE.TL doc.html readme-html.dir texmf-dist tlpkg
README index.html readme-txt.dir texmf-var
README.usergroups install-tl release-texlive.txt texmf.cnf
that texmfcnf.lua only holds
return {
content = {
variables = {
},
},
}
which is useless
so, no bueno. Not when the aim is to install a fully functional context
standalone
Now let's take a peek instide and see the binaries
afm2tfm etex kpsereadlink mf mtxrun.lua texluac
bibtex extractbb kpsestat mf-nowin pdfetex tlmgr
context fmtutil kpsewhich mft pdflatex tlshell
context.lua fmtutil-sys latex mkindex pdftex updmap
dvilualatex fmtutil-user luahbtex mktexfmt pktogf updmap-sys
dviluatex gftodvi lualatex mktexlsr pktype updmap-user
dvipdfm gftopk luametatex mktexmf rungs xdvi
dvipdfmx gftype luaotfload-tool mktexpk simpdftex xdvi-xaw
dvipdft inimf luatex mktextfm tex xdvipdfmx
dvips initex makeindex mptopdf texhash
ebb kpseaccess man mtxrun texlua
Do you see that context and context.lua out there, right? That's
only after running tlmgr and installing it, so no bueno, because in
the meantime there's no texmfcnf.lua around
Then again, remember in the current state I actually don't have
texmfcnf.lua for the simple reason that first-setup.sh never provided
it, correct?
So, wwith that in mind and in place, even that context binary from TeX
Live infrastructure as shown before is a known fact that texmfcnf.lua
is nowhere to be found
So let me see if I can copy one from an otherwise fully functional TeX Live
with almost 5g of space taken over and copy it over to this TeX Live
infrastrcutre so
everything checks out in the end
What happens then is not really surprising
If I were to copy over a copy that I found elsewhere over to web2c
of the TeX Live-infrastructure-only installation, this is what happens:
$ context --generate --luatex
mtxrun | unknown script 'mtx-context.lua' or 'mtx-mtx-context.lua'
Here we go! Back to point A where we were at before
>
> P.S. It can be a good practice to keep a ConTeXt standalone version
> associated with each project, which can be "frozen" with the project,
> assuring that the sources can always be typeset in the future "as is".
>
> P.P.S. This per-project ./context/ subdirectory can include multiple
> tex/texmf-system-architecture subdirectories and the project shared
> between different machines, all in happy coexistence. (Hans told me a
> while ago that they all use unique luametatex caches.)
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