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

[George Nurser]

On 29 May 2012 14:46, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at web.de> wrote:
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> Am 29.05.2012 um 11:21 schrieb George Nurser:
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>> I'd assumed that since lualatex was just a symlink to luatex it
>> made no difference.
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> It makes a difference! The programme knows the name by which it was invoked.

Ah. I see now.

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:
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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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