[OS X TeX] How do I use a personally compiled luatex with MacTeX,

[George Nurser]

On 28 May 2012 17:25, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at web.de> wrote:
>
> Am 28.05.2012 um 18:12 schrieb George Nurser:
>
>> # Post-compilation installation should be a simple matter
>> # of copying the executable to a normal place for web2c
>> # binaries
>
> Which means that it cannot be installed in the local or user area.
>
>>
>> OK, this is I think what you suggested. I did try this, but it didn't
>> work without..
>
> Without what? "Sudo"? "Cp"? "Install"? A mixture of these?
>
>> # and generating the desired formats.
>>
>> This is what I'm not sure about.
>
> First step: fmtutil-sys --help
> Second step: sudo fmtutil-sys --byengine luatex

thanks for this.
So I have copied the new luatex executable to the system position
sudo mv ./2011/bin/x86_64-darwin/luatex ./2011/bin/x86_64-darwin/old_luatex
cd ./2011/bin/x86_64-darwin
sudo cp -p /Users/agn/VC_code/luatex/build/texk/web2c/luatex .

...and then done sudo fmtutil-sys:
fmtutil-sys --byengine luatex

I think I'm still missing something here. Problem now is new luatex
doesn't seem to recognize latex commands:

/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-darwin/luatex model_description.tex
=>
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.71.0-2012052622
 restricted \write18 enabled.
(./model_description.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
l.2 \documentclass
                  [11pt,a4paper,oneside]{amsart}
?
! Undefined control sequence.
l.3 \usepackage
               {xspace}                              % helpd ensure correct ...

Thanks, George.


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