[tex-live] using luatex53 - format not found

[David Carlisle]

I think you'll find it works if you move lualatex53.fmt to
c:/users/nililand-surface/.texlive2018/texmf-var/web2c/luatex
and re-run mktexlsr

luatex53 is running kpse with engine=luatex as far as I can tell.

The above worked for me (apart from the user name bit:-)
On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 at 11:03, Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to setup a lualatex35 format to be able to run some tests
> on luaotfload with it. I'm on windows 10.
>
> I do *not* want to completly switch to it and using the format with
> luatex53 -fmt=lualatex53 ... is fine for me.
>
> I added an entry to a local fmtutil.cnf
>
>     lualatex53 luatex53 language.dat,language.dat.lua lualatex.ini
>
> and created the format in texmf-local/texmf-var/web2c/luatex53/
> with
>     fmtutil-sys -byfmt=lualatex53
>
> This worked fine and kpsewhich -engine=luatex53 lualatex.fmt finds
> the format.
>
> But I can't use it.
>
> luatex53 --fmt=lualatex53  test-utf8
>
> starts a new (successfull) format creation and then ends with:
>
> warning  (pdf backend): no pages of output.
> Transcript written on lualatex53.log.
> fmtutil [INFO]:
> c:/users/nililand-surface/.texlive2018/texmf-var/web2c/luatex53/lualatex53.fmt
> installed.
> fmtutil [INFO]: Disabled formats: 6
> fmtutil [INFO]: Successfully rebuilt formats: 1
> fmtutil [INFO]: Not selected formats: 44
> fmtutil [INFO]: Total formats: 51
> fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 0
> I can't find the format file `lualatex53.fmt'!
>
>
> When I copy the format to the current directory everything works as
> expected
>
> What is happening here? Why can't luatex53 find the format in the
> luatex53 folder when kpsewhich can?
>
> --
> Ulrike Fischer
> https://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
>