On 9 March 2017 at 14:09, Norbert Preining <norb...@preining.info> wrote: >> None of this has the slightest effect! > > Complain to luatex maintainers about not reusing the ls-R database > and kpsewhich, but implementing their own solution. > > <rant> > That is life with luatex (and context), and that is the reason > most distributions scare away from it, why context is updated > only once a year on CTAN (TL), and if you really want to use > new luatex (or context), you need to install your own extra > distribution (context minimals). >
This doesn't seem quite right: context switches it off, but lua(la)tex will use kpse file searching I regularly use development builds of luatex in the main texlive tree (I don't bother maintaining separate trees, just drop the new binary in (for me) /usr/local/texlive/2016/bin/x86_64-cygwin/luatex and rebuild the formats with fmtutil-sys. David
