<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Environment: TeXShop 5.52, TeXLive 2025 up-to-date, macOS Sequoia 15.4.1.<div><br></div><div>A book-length document compiles fine using lualatexmk. But when I try to compile using the development version of lualatex with lualatexmk-dev, I immediately get error, as shown here in the console window:<div><br></div><div><div><font face="Courier">Rc files read:</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> /Users/me/Library/TeXShop/bin/latexmkrcedit</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> /Users/me/Library/TeXShop/bin/tslatexmk/lualatexmkrc-dev</font></div><div><font face="Courier"> ./platexmkrc</font></div><div><font face="Courier">Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 27 Dec. 2024. Version 4.86a.</font></div><div><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier">------------</font></div><div><font face="Courier">Latexmk: Could not find file 'n'.</font></div><div><font face="Courier">-- Use the -f option to force complete processing.</font></div><div><br></div><div>Comparing files lualatexmk and lualatexmk-dev, dated Apr 26, 2025, and Mar 23, 2022, respectively, I find the following difference on Line 27:</div><div><br></div><div>## lualatexmk</div><div><font face="Courier"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>export localrc=( -r ./platexmkrc )</font></div><div><br></div><div>## lualatexmk-dev</div><div><font face="Courier"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>export localrc=(n -r ./platexmkrc )</font></div><div><br></div><div>I suspect that that "n" in line 27 is the source of the error. Is that an error in the engine? If not, what does the "n" here mean and how can I fix things?</div><div><br></div><div>
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