Hi Aditya, Your experiment confirms what I experienced last week with various types of operating systems, and today on my Mac with MacTeX 2018, which is just an installer of TL2018 dedicated to MacOS.
Best regards: OK > On 6 Jun 2018, at 17:20, Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu> wrote: > > Hi Otared, > > On Wed, 6 Jun 2018, Otared Kavian wrote: > >> I don't know to whom I should write to have ConTeXt enabled in TeXLive when >> one installs it: can anyone give me a hint? > > I haven't used context that comes with texlive so I tried doing so on a new > computer (which means that there were no left overs from previous texlive > installs). I am on archlinux. First, some sanity checks: > > $whereis context > context: /usr/bin/context > > $pacman -Qo =context > /usr/bin/context is owned by texlive-core 2017.46770-1 > > Now, I tried compiling a file: > > $context test > resolvers | trees | analyzing 'home:texmf' > mtx-context | warning: no format found, forcing remake (commandline > driven) > resolvers | resolving | configuration files already identified > resolvers | resolving | loading configuration file > 'selfautodir:/share/texmf-dist/web2c/texmfcnf.lua' > resolvers | resolving | > resolvers | resolving | locating list of 'home:.texlive/texmf-config' > (runtime) (tree:///home:.texlive/texmf-config) > resolvers | methods | resolving, method 'locators', how 'uri', handler > 'tree', argument 'tree:///home:.texlive/texmf-config' > resolvers | trees | locator 'home:.texlive/texmf-config' not found > resolvers | resolving | locating list of 'home:texmf' (runtime) > (tree:///home:texmf) > resolvers | methods | resolving, method 'locators', how 'uri', handler > 'tree', argument 'tree:///home:texmf' > resolvers | trees | locator '/home/adityam/texmf' found > resolvers | resolving | hash 'home:texmf' appended > resolvers | resolving | locating list of '/etc/texmf' (cached) > resolvers | methods | resolving, method 'locators', how 'uri', handler > 'file', argument '/etc/texmf' > resolvers | files | file locator '/etc/texmf' found as '/etc/texmf' > resolvers | resolving | locating list of '/var/lib/texmf' (cached) > resolvers | methods | resolving, method 'locators', how 'uri', handler > 'file', argument '/var/lib/texmf' > resolvers | files | file locator '/var/lib/texmf' found as > '/var/lib/texmf' > resolvers | resolving | locating list of 'selfautoparent:texmf-project' > (cached) > resolvers | methods | resolving, method 'locators', how 'uri', handler > 'file', argument 'selfautoparent:texmf-project' > resolvers | files | file locator 'selfautoparent:texmf-project' not > found > resolvers | resolving | locating list of 'selfautoparent:texmf-fonts' > (cached) > resolvers | methods | resolving, method 'locators', how 'uri', handler > 'file', argument 'selfautoparent:texmf-fonts' > resolvers | files | file locator 'selfautoparent:texmf-fonts' not found > resolvers | resolving | locating list of '.' (cached) > resolvers | methods | resolving, method 'locators', how 'uri', handler > 'file', argument '.' > resolvers | files | file locator '.' found as '.' > resolvers | resolving | locating list of 'selfautodir:share/texmf-dist' > (cached) > resolvers | methods | resolving, method 'locators', how 'uri', handler > 'file', argument 'selfautodir:share/texmf-dist' > resolvers | files | file locator 'selfautodir:share/texmf-dist' found > as '/usr/share/texmf-dist' > resolvers | resolving | > resolvers | methods | resolving, method 'generators', how 'uri', > handler 'file', argument 'home:texmf' > resolvers | expansions | using cached scan of path 'home:texmf', branch > 'home:texmf' > resolvers | methods | resolving, method 'generators', how 'uri', > handler 'file', argument '/etc/texmf' > resolvers | expansions | scanning path '/etc/texmf', branch '/etc/texmf' > resolvers | expansions | 14 files found on 11 directories with 2 > uppercase remappings > resolvers | methods | resolving, method 'generators', how 'uri', > handler 'file', argument '/var/lib/texmf' > resolvers | expansions | scanning path '/var/lib/texmf', branch > '/var/lib/texmf' > resolvers | expansions | 86 files found on 21 directories with 1 > uppercase remappings > resolvers | methods | resolving, method 'generators', how 'uri', > handler 'file', argument '.' > resolvers | expansions | scanning path '.', branch > '.'/usr/bin/mtxrun:253: cannot open > ./systemd-private-55c5c02a6995423fa7b5ef0af16560b5-colord.service-GCWnsA/: > Permission denied > > which says that context could not find a format, so it tried to generate one, > but none of the given directories were writable. I don't know why mtxrun is > trying to write in a /systemd-private directory. > > $ mtxrun --expand-var TEXMFCACHE > /var/lib/texmf;home:.texlive/texmf-var > > and the second directory is writable. > > So, I can confirm that context that ships with texlive did not run out of the > box on my computer. It would have been nice had texlive generated the context > format (as it does for latex), so a user could have run context out of the > box. Even if that is not the case, context does try to generate the format on > its own and fails. I'll dig deeper into why that is happenign. > > Please do keep in mind that this is texlive that ships with archlinux and not > the one distributed by ctan. So, this could be a packaging error in arch. > > Aditya > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
