[tlbuild] LuaMetaTeX for TeX Live

[Mojca Miklavec]

Hi,

On Sun, 18 Sept 2022 at 13:35, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2022, Karl Berry wrote:
> >     The build is done using CMake, so I'm not sure about the best way to
> >     integrate it into the current autotools-based toolchain.
> >
> > As far as I can imagine, it is impossible. (Also, FWIW, I have no
> > interest in spending any time thinking about cmake in any way, so if
> > it's going to happen, someone else will have to work on it.)
>
> What about putting it into the utils directory where we have things that
> are not necessarily included in the build process, and ask builders
> to
>         cd ...
>         cmake ...
> similarly to what we do for asy?
>
> If, in due time, someone comes up with a autoconf calls cmake
> (maybe https://github.com/nemequ/configure-cmake as starting point)
> we can include it in the normal build process.

I did some basic experiments in the "luametatex" branch of
https://github.com/mojca/texlive-source.
    https://github.com/mojca/texlive-source/commits/luametatex

It's not ready yet, and ./reautoconf still needs to be run.
(Yes, I'm aware that the configure file that I copied gets overwritten for now.)

My first question is: I cannot figure out how to get
--enable-luametatex flag running, to start with.
I see that there is for example --enable-xindy, but I don't see where
exactly that flag comes from.
(I see the source for --enable-xindy-docs, but not for --enable-xindy itself.)

Mojca