[luatex] luaotfload problems on windows (TL + Miktex)

[Evan Cooch]

Have a look throught the last ~2 weeks of maillist archives. This issue 
has been discussed a fair bit, and it *appears* as if the problem is an 
outdated wrapper for *.lua scripts in the latest MikTeX.

On 7/10/2013 11:33 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> I found some time to update today miktex and texlive and would like
> to report some luaotfload problem.
>
> I used a small document for the tests which loads an system font:
>
> \documentclass{scrartcl}
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \setmainfont{Arial}
> \begin{document}
> blub
> \end{document}
>
> I deleted the fonts caches before the tests.
>
> Problems
> 1. luaotfload can't create the font database on-the-fly during the
> compilation:
>
> luaotfload | db : Font names database not found, generating new one.
> luaotfload | db : This can take several minutes; please be patient.
> luaotfload | db : Failed to save names database
> luaotfload | db : Database creation unsuccessful.
>
> And there is nothing in the "names" folder.
> This happens in texlive + miktex.
>
> Running
>    luaotfload-tool --update --force --vv
> works fine and creates the database.
>
>
> 2. Miktex/installation specific:
> Miktex hanges while create the cache for a new font and shows a lua
> prompt:
>
> luaotfload | db : Database creation unsuccessful.
> luaotfload | load : loading the extended glyph list from ConTeXt
> lua>
>
> The problem seems to be that luaotfload tries to load font-age.lua
> which doesn't exist on a normal miktex system (there is not context)
>
> 3. lualatex compiles fine after I created the font databases with
> luaotfload-tool, but the log (both systems) shows a lot of this
> messages:
>
> luaotfload | cache : Could not write lookup cache
> luaotfload | cache: Could not write to cache
> luaotfload | cache : Could not write to cache
>
>

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