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[Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>]

El Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:09:45 +0900
flux <flux AT sourcemage.org> escribió:
> Sukneet Basuta (sukneet AT gmail.com) wrote [11.09.10 02:49]:
> > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:12 AM, flux <flux AT sourcemage.org> wrote:
> > > Did you try ConTeXt MkII, or only MkIV? Note that MkIV is
> > > LuaTeX-specific and won't work with other TeX engines, while MkII
> > > is older but should work fine with pdftex, xetex, etc.
> > >
> > 
> > MkII seems to rely on luatex as well. I know that seems odd, but
> > running texexec just gives me "/usr/bin/env: texlua: No such file or
> > directory." I'm guess it requires luatex to start things.
> 
> There are options to texexec for using different tex engines. Perhaps
> they changed the default tex engine from pdftex to luatex. Can you try
> running it with --pdftex or --xetex (or whatever the options are if
> they have changed, man texexec should tell you). Also, it's possible
> that the script to run ConTeXt (even for MkII) changed to "context"
> rather than "texexec" (though I have doubts for this).

I tried that and --engine too, with identical results. Maybe MkII has
been deprecated...

> Does luatex actually get installed by texlive? If so, perhaps we can
> hunt down whatever config value is causing ConTeXt to not find it. If
> it's not being installed, perhaps we can fix INSTALL to make it
> install it (perhaps optionally so via CONFIGURE?).

No, it's not being installed. Perhaps we need to pass some option to
the configure script.

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