[OS X TeX] How do I use a personally compiled luatex with MacTeX,
Peter Dyballa
Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE
Tue May 29 15:46:45 CEST 2012
Am 29.05.2012 um 11:21 schrieb George Nurser:
> I'd assumed that since lualatex was just a symlink to luatex it
> made no difference.
It makes a difference! The programme knows the name by which it was invoked. And this name then makes the actual executable behave differently, according to its name. Otherwise it would not make much sense to create so many sym-links:
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 15. Jul 2011 dvilualatex -> luatex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 24. Mai 2010 dviluatex -> luatex
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 15. Jul 2011 lualatex -> luatex
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root wheel 5690836 22. Jun 2011 luatex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 24. Mai 2010 texlua -> luatex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 24. Mai 2010 texluac -> luatex
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 15. Jul 2011 amstex -> pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 15. Jul 2011 eplain -> pdftex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 24. Mai 2010 etex -> pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 15. Jul 2011 jadetex -> pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 15. Jul 2011 latex -> pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 15. Jul 2011 mllatex -> pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 15. Jul 2011 mltex -> pdftex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 6 24. Mai 2010 pdfetex -> pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 15. Jul 2011 pdfjadetex -> pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 15. Jul 2011 pdflatex -> pdftex
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root wheel 1662700 22. Jun 2011 pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 15. Jul 2011 pdfxmltex -> pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 15. Jul 2011 texsis -> pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6 15. Jul 2011 xmltex -> pdftex
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 5 24. Mai 2010 xelatex -> xetex
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root wheel 17777824 22. Jun 2011 xetex
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Pete
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