[luatex] pdfpages and lualatex?

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Fri Dec 17 02:54:39 CET 2010


On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:32:38PM +0100, Martin Schröder wrote:
> 2010/12/15 stefano franchi <stefano.franchi at gmail.com>:
> > That's a bit sparse. I suppose I shoudl run the compiled luatex executable
> > with the -ini flag and an ini file. But where should luatex be in order to
> > find all the files it needs to create the format? Is it even possible to do
> 
> If you are using TeXLive 2010:
> Replace your current luatex binary with the new one.
> Then do a "fmtutil-sys --refresh --byengine luatex"

It is no longer safe to do so; latest luatex has some incompatible lfs
change that might break many packages (it breaks ConTeXt and luaotfload
at least), so I'd not recommend doing so (having suffered from it myself).

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
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