On Wed, 24 Mar 2021, Faheem Mitha wrote:
I'm not completely sure I understand what your issue is, but you might find
https://ctan.org/pkg/luapackageloader of interest if you aren't familiar with
it already. The strategy it uses is described somewhere in the LuaTeX manual
I think, though right now I can't remember exactly where.
I forgot to say that I use
package.cpath="/usr/local/lib/lua/5.3/?.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lua/5.3/?.so;/usr/lib/lua/5.3/?.so;/usr/local/lib/lua/5.3/loadall.so;./?.so"..package.cpath
package.path="/usr/local/share/lua/5.3/?.lua;/usr/local/share/lua/5.3/?/init.lua;/usr/local/lib/lua/5.3/?.lua;/usr/local/lib/lua/5.3/?/init.lua;/usr/share/lua/5.3/?.lua;/usr/share/lua/5.3/?/init.lua;./?.lua"..package.path
in my Lua files for use with LuaTeX, in conjunction with luapackageloader,
and it seems to work. Though I can't remember whether I specifically
needed to load an init.lua.
Hope this helps.
Regards, Faheem Mitha
