My apologies, following the "Manual Install" guide indeed does produce a
working binary for FreeBSD. The issue was using a terminal session with
an outdated $PATH to test, which pointed to the old install.
Many thanks.
On 2/12/25 20:56, Aswell wrote:
I too am running FreeBSD, and also had the exact same issue after
upgrading...
After the upgrade failed, I followed the "Manual Install" instructions
from the wiki: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Manual_Install
Unfortunately, that process resulted in the same error.
Should following the steps in the "Compile" section of the Manual
Install wiki page, produce a working FreeBSD binary? Or, am I missing
something?
On 2/12/25 15:22, Pavneet Arora via ntg-context wrote:
This worked a charm, Hans! Thank you.
Is there a place I can upload the compiled binary to assist in
distribution?
Regards.
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 20:57:21 +0100
From: Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl>
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: Upgrade (and fresh installation) failing
with lua error in supp-box.mkxl
To: Pavneet Arora via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Message-ID: <61c102a0-dd25-46e9-b9e3-bd5b153a3...@xs4all.nl>
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On 2/12/2025 6:59 PM, Pavneet Arora via ntg-context wrote:
This past weekend I attempted and update on my FreeBSD
distribution, and
it failed with the following error:
open source > level 1, order 56, name 'supp-box.mkxl'
loading > ConTeXt Support Macros / Boxes
lua error > lua error on line 43 in file supp-box.mkxl:
token call, execute:
...ext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/node-ini.lmt:214:
attempt to index a nil value (global 'mathematics')
stack traceback:
...ext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/node-ini.lmt:214: in
metamethod 'index'
...ext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/supp-box.lmt:37: in
local 'code'
...ext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/util-lua.lua:97: in
field 'loadedluacode'
...ext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/luat-env.lua:108: in
field 'luafilechunk'
...ext/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/luat-cod.lmt:82: in
function 'lua.registercode'
[ctxlua]:1: in main chunk
<empty file>
A number should have been here; I inserted '0'. (If you can't
figure out why I
needed to see a number, look up 'weird error' in the index to
The TeXbook.)
<<<
I subsequently tried a fresh installation with the same error message.
I haven't seen mention of this elsewhere, and so am assuming that this
might be a FreeBSD specific issue?
Can you compile the binary from source (in the tree)? The freebsd vm is
not running so no bins are made,
Hans
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