[tex-live] change in luatex? log is different

[Joseph Wright]

On 10/07/2018 14:39, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> I have problem with luatex and some l3build-tests on a travis setup.
> 
> When I compile on travis a document like this with lualatex
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> \showoutput
>   abc abc
> \end{document}
> 
> I get in the log-file
> 
> ....\kern0.28
> 
> When I do the same locally (on windows, with TL18)
> 
> ....\kern0.28 (font)
> 
> 
> Last week the build worked, and while I did change a few things imho
> none of this changes explains this change in the log-file.
> 
> The luatex on travis is in `bin/x86_64-linux` (at least that the
> path the script checks). Has there been any change to this luatex
> that would explain the behaviour?

l3build normalises some of this 'extra data': you'll need to use a VM or 
similar if you want to compare the raw logs. Here, TL'18 LuaTeX is more 
'talkative' than earlier releases: it's tricky to fully normalise to the 
same format as from TL'17.

Joseph