Upgrade (and fresh installation) failing with lua error in supp-box.mkxl

12 Feb 2025

      This past weekend I attempted and update on my FreeBSD distribution, and 
it failed with the following error:
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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?

advTHANKSance.

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