[tlbuild] request for rebuilding (LuaTeX)

[Mojca Miklavec]

Dear TeX Live builders,

this time it is me with a tiny request. For those who can afford to
(but at least windows, i386-linux, x86_64 linux & Mac) I would be very
grateful if the builders could commit at least the latest luatex
binary.

Taco fixed something on Norbert's request and that fix is needed to be
able to make & properly test a change in ConTeXt. (I will then also
put those binaries into ConTeXt distribution.)

LuaTeX also underwent some other fixes to resolve some crashes on
i386-linux. (The last known crash on mipsel and armel-linux is still
present though, but it is more difficult to reproduce, so at least it
won't hurt that many in case that it won't be fixed by the time of
release.)

Thank you very much,
    Mojca


On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> On 05/23/2012 04:46 AM, Norbert Preining wrote:
>> On Mi, 23 Mai 2012, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>>>
>>> AFAIK, context does not use texmf.cnf anymore, it used its own
>>> texmfcng.lua file. Anyway, kpathsea is not used by context at all, it
>>> has its own lua based file finder.
>>
>> context should at least use kpse to find texmfcnf.lua!
>
> To help with that, Hans, Mojca and me had a bit of email
> exchange, and we came up with the following solution:
>
> luatex now has (as of 5 minutes ago) a new lua function in the kpse
> library:
>
>  kpse.default_texmfcnf()
>
> which returns the value of the C preprocessor macro DEFAULT_TEXMFCNF
> without initializing anything else from kpathsea. The code for that
> (just a few lines actually) has been submitted to TL repository as
> well as the trunk of the luatex repository.
>
> Hans can then use the output of that function to find any texmfcnf.lua
> that lives alongside texmf.cnf, now using the hardcoded built-in from
> the executable as opposed to the hardcoded value in mtxrun that has
> been used upto now.
>
> Norbert, will that fix the problem? (we hope so)
>
> Of course, it means another TL rebuild and another commit of a new
> and better context release ..
>
> Best wishes,
> Taco