Oliver Buerschaper wrote:

> Obviously, the problem is the symbolic link because LuaTeX tries and  
> finds argv[0] in $PATH but doesn't resolve /usr/texbin to its actual  
> location on disk. It's clear that in this situation there can't be any  
> difference between the distribution-independent syntax of calling  
> luatex and the direct invocation.
> 
> Do you think LuaTeX's path discovery mechanism could be adapted to  
> handle symbolic links?

there is lfs.symlinkattributes but i'm somewhat reluctant to usinmg 
platform specific things; if i have time i'll see if this function 
returns something useful

Hans

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