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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ dev-context mailing list dev-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-context