[NTG-context] Re: Upgrade (and fresh installation) failing with lua error in supp-box.mkxl

13 Feb 2025

      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 
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: Upgrade (and fresh installation) failing
  with lua error in supp-box.mkxl
To: Pavneet Arora via ntg-context 
Message-ID: <61c102a0-dd25-46e9-b9e3-bd5b153a3282@xs4all.nl>
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On 2/12/2025 6:59 PM, Pavneet Arora via ntg-context wrote:
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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.)
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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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