[OS X TeX] How do I use a personally compiled luatex with MacTeX,

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 29.05.2012 um 11:21 schrieb George Nurser:

> I'd assumed that since lualatex was just a symlink to luatex it
> made no difference.

It makes a difference! The programme knows the name by which it was invoked. And this name then makes the actual executable behave differently, according to its name. Otherwise it would not make much sense to create so many sym-links:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel        6 15. Jul 2011  dvilualatex -> luatex
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root wheel        6 24. Mai 2010  dviluatex -> luatex
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel        6 15. Jul 2011  lualatex -> luatex
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root wheel  5690836 22. Jun 2011  luatex
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root wheel        6 24. Mai 2010  texlua -> luatex
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root wheel        6 24. Mai 2010  texluac -> luatex

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel        6 15. Jul 2011  amstex -> pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel        6 15. Jul 2011  eplain -> pdftex
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root wheel        6 24. Mai 2010  etex -> pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel        6 15. Jul 2011  jadetex -> pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel        6 15. Jul 2011  latex -> pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel        6 15. Jul 2011  mllatex -> pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel        6 15. Jul 2011  mltex -> pdftex
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root wheel        6 24. Mai 2010  pdfetex -> pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel        6 15. Jul 2011  pdfjadetex -> pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel        6 15. Jul 2011  pdflatex -> pdftex
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root wheel  1662700 22. Jun 2011  pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel        6 15. Jul 2011  pdfxmltex -> pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel        6 15. Jul 2011  texsis -> pdftex
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root wheel        6 15. Jul 2011  xmltex -> pdftex

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root wheel        5 24. Mai 2010  xelatex -> xetex
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root wheel 17777824 22. Jun 2011  xetex


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