Bug#609600: context: ConTeXt does not execute MetaPost

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Taco, hi all,

I just found the ctt thread and bug report ...

On Mo, 10 Jan 2011, Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> > Asked for help on Mailinglist here:
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/65124

Ok, it seems that something has changed in ConTeXt recently, as 
	export TEXMFCNF=/usr/share/texmf/web2c
	luatools --generate 
does not work anymore:
[~/bla] luatools --generate --verbose
MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'SELFAUTOLOC' set to '/usr/bin'
MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'SELFAUTODIR' set to '/usr'
MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'SELFAUTOPARENT' set to '.'
MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'TEXMFCNF' set to '/usr/share/texmf/web2c'
MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'TEXMF' set to ''
MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'TEXOS' set to '/usr'
MTXrun | resolvers
MTXrun | resolvers: warning: no lua configuration files found
MTXrun | resolvers
MTXrun | forcing cache reload
MTXrun | resolvers: warning: no lua configuration files found
MTXrun | resolvers
MTXrun | resolvers
MTXrun | the resolver databases are not present or outdated
MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
MTXrun | resolvers: remembering file 'mtx-base.lua'
MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua'
MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua'


We have in /u/s/texmf/web2c a file
	contextcnf.lua
that looks like:
return {

    type    = "configuration",
    version = "1.0.2",
    date    = "2010-06-07",
    time    = "14:49:00",
    comment = "ConTeXt MkIV configuration file",
    author  = "Hans Hagen, PRAGMA-ADE, Hasselt NL",

    content = {

     -- LUACSTRIP       = 'f',
     -- PURGECACHE      = 't',

        TEXMFCACHE      = "$SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-cache",

        TEXMFOS         = "$SELFAUTODIR",
        TEXMFSYSTEM     = "$SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-$SELFAUTOSYSTEM",
        TEXMFMAIN       = "$SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf",
......
}

Isn't that supposed to work?

Can you guess what is wrong there? Thansk a lot and all the best

Norbert

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