Running latexmk on multiple documents in parallel errors due to lualatex font cache

[Marei Peischl]

Hi Max,

On 25.03.22 13:39, Maximilian Nöthe wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Running multiple latexmk commands in parallel to produce many documents,
> I encountered the issue that latexmk does not finish and runs into its 
> limit for
> the number of compilations due to the updating of the lualatex font 
> cache of
> the different parallel jobs:
>
> Latexmk: applying rule 'pdflatex'...
> Rule 'pdflatex': File changes, etc:
>     Changed files, or newly in use since previous run(s):
>    /root/texlive/2021/texmf-var/luatex-cache/generic/names/luaotfload-lookup-cache.luc
>
> Latexmk: Failure in processing file 'smda00_organisation.tex':
>     'pdflatex' needed too many passes
> ----------------------

You can tell latexmk to ignore changes in the luc files by adding

$hash_calc_ignore_pattern{'luc'}='^';

to your latexmk configuration files. That should help.


Though I'd expect such a question rather via texhax 
(https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texhax) instead of the TeX Live list.

Best,

Marei

> Is there any way to avoid this?
>
> Cheers
> Max
>
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