[tex-live] LuaLaTeX potential problems

[David Carlisle]

On 14 May 2016 at 22:56, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>> On May 14, 2016, at 7:02 AM, David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Just to confirm this is already reported to the standalone source repository
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/martin_scharrer/standalone/issues/23/no-write18-or-pdfxxx-commands-in-luatex
>>
>> David
>
> Howdy,
>
> Thanks for this information. I have a tikz example file that needs to call gnuplot (via \write18) that failed under LuaLaTeX but adding \RequirePackage{shellesc} fixed it up.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>

If you were calling write18 directly yourself that's probably how it
has to be. If the system call was behind some tikz interface tikz
probably should (now) be using os.exec not write18 on luatex, which is
something you could report to them.

David