On Aug 8, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: >> In any case, I have probably misunderstood the thread. Has a summary >> been posted somewhere that I might consult? > > I need to summarize all the Linux installation methods on the Wiki, > once I get it all straight in my head. Right now in reality and in my > head it's a nightmare because of all the flavors (texlive, tetex 2 or > 3, etc.) and the gazillion map files that could be anywhere. ConTeXt > tries to work everywhere so it has a hard life. > > I don't know much about what MacOS X does, but if you're not using a > graphical installation method, it should be like BSD 4.[0123] Unix > that I once used. In which case it should work mostly like Linux. > > Here's what I do now and did just half hour ago to update to the > 2006.08.08 version. I use bash (a mostly sh-compatiable shell), which > the MacOS terminal runs too I think. The $ below is my bash prompt > and everything after it is what I type: > > $ TEXMFLOCAL=/home/sanjoy/texmf texmfstart ctxtools --updatecontext > > This fixes the problem that ctxtools uses (I think) Windows quoting in > this source line: > > tree = `kpsewhich --expand-path $TEXMFLOCAL`.chomp > rescue nil > > In Unix ruby (like in Perl) the $TEXMFLOCAL is expanded by the shell > because of the $, and the result is run by the backticks. Usually > TEXMFLOCAL has no setting in the shell or environment so ruby runs the > command with $TEXMFLOCAL replaced by an empty string, giving: > > kpsewhich --expand-path > > So kpsewhich complains that it didn't get an argument for > --expand-path (or --expand-var). The long-term fix is to figure out > how to quote that works in Windows and Unix, but I don't know how > since I don't use Windows. > > The short-term hack is to set TEXMFLOCAL just while running ctxtools, > which is done by the command above that I run. > > So maybe try that using the vanilla distribution (so with \012 > restored) and report back what happens and let's see if we can find a > fix if something else doesn't work. My computers run Linux but my > partner has a MacOS 10.3 machine and I'll use it for ConTeXt > experiments if needed. > > -Sanjoy
Sanjoy— Since I use the teTeX distribution on my Mac, I ran TEXMFLOCAL=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local sudo texmfstart ctxtools --updatecontext in Terminal (bash) and the update went perfectly. Many thanks! Alan _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
