[NTG-context] How to process a project residing in another directory

2012-04-15 Thread Helge Blischke
I try to process a ConTeXt project residing in a directory different from the current directory (where context is called), imagine e.g. a NFS mounted directory on a different host. I tried to point context to the project directory by specifying it by the command line option --path=absolute_path_to

Re: [NTG-context] How to process a project residing in another directory

2012-04-16 Thread Marco
On 2012-04-15 Helge Blischke wrote: > I try to process a ConTeXt project residing in a directory different from > the current directory (where context is called), imagine e.g. a NFS mounted > directory on a different host. NFS is transparent to the applications and should work the same way as lo

Re: [NTG-context] How to process a project residing in another directory

2012-04-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 15-4-2012 23:57, Helge Blischke wrote: I try to process a ConTeXt project residing in a directory different from the current directory (where context is called), imagine e.g. a NFS mounted directory on a different host. I tried to point context to the project directory by specifying it by the

Re: [NTG-context] How to process a project residing in another directory

2012-04-16 Thread Helge Blischke
Hans Hagen wxs.nl> writes: > > On 15-4-2012 23:57, Helge Blischke wrote: > > I try to process a ConTeXt project residing in a directory different from > > the > > current directory (where context is called), imagine e.g. a NFS mounted > > directory on a different host. > > > > I tried to point

Re: [NTG-context] How to process a project residing in another directory

2012-04-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 16-4-2012 15:00, Helge Blischke wrote: Hans Hagen wxs.nl> writes: On 15-4-2012 23:57, Helge Blischke wrote: I try to process a ConTeXt project residing in a directory different from the current directory (where context is called), imagine e.g. a NFS mounted directory on a different host.

Re: [NTG-context] How to process a project residing in another directory

2012-04-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Hans Hagen wrote: On 16-4-2012 15:00, Helge Blischke wrote: Hans Hagen wxs.nl> writes: On 15-4-2012 23:57, Helge Blischke wrote: I try to process a ConTeXt project residing in a directory different from the current directory (where context is called), imagine e.g. a

Re: [NTG-context] How to process a project residing in another directory

2012-04-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 16-4-2012 19:28, Aditya Mahajan wrote: But this overwrites the default value of TEXMFHOME. If the mtxrun --generate step were not needed, one could do the same with TEXMFPROJECT tree. One can indeed use texmfhome which is checked at runtime (but a large one will take time of course esp on

Re: [NTG-context] How to process a project residing in another directory

2012-04-16 Thread Helge Blischke
Hans Hagen wxs.nl> writes: > > On 16-4-2012 19:28, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > > But this overwrites the default value of TEXMFHOME. If the mtxrun > > --generate step were not needed, one could do the same with TEXMFPROJECT > > tree. > > One can indeed use texmfhome which is checked at runtime (

Re: [NTG-context] How to process a project residing in another directory

2012-04-16 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012, Helge Blischke wrote: By trial and eror I found out that context --path=... tries to run the scripts and programs within that directory which leads to abort if e.g. the calling user has no write permission there. Can you summarize your results on the wiki? On the other h