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

[Philipp Gesang]

Hi Ulrike, others,

···<Datum: Thursday, 11. July 2013>···<Von: Ulrike Fischer>···

> Am Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:21:51 -0400 schrieb Jura Pintar:
> 
> > Ulrike, when you run luaotfload-tool --help under MiKTeX and under TeX 
> > Live, do you get the same output?
> 
> No. But this is not caused by the binary wrapper of miktex pointing
> to a wrong file: I get the same behaviour if I delete the lua-files
> in the main miktex tree and so only the git files exists.
> And -V always shows the git version number. 
> 
> The different messages are caused by an option:
> 
> luaotfload-tool --alias=luaotfload-tool --help : new message
> luaotfload-tool --alias=mkluatexfontdb --help  : old message
> 
> Philipp: should I make a bug report so that miktex changes the
> luaotfload-tool call? 

I finally got around to install the Win32 version of Texlive
through Wine. In the cmd shell, luaotfload-tool --help correctly
displays the long message while mkluatexfontdb --help gives the
compatibility one. The cache paths are resolved correctly as
well, so there’s nothing wrong with the script as such, and
forcing the “--alias” should be unnecessary.

So, yes, if you run luaotfload-tool --help and don’t get the
complete message, then this needs fixing on the Miktex side. The
script only accepts “mkluatexfontdb” as an alias so we don’t
break existing scripts.

Best,
Philipp

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