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 The issue was using a terminal session with an outdated $PATH to test, which pointed to the old install.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:

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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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed

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.) <<<

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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