> > So lulaatex seems to really use the HOME directory. PS @Tomasz, that was my question concerning /var writable! I used a cowbuilder where the building user is root, thus the font database is built in /var/lib/texmf (TEXMFSYSVAR), while when run as other user it is ~/.texlive2016/... (TEXMFVAR)
You can do export TEXMFVAR=/path/to/some/writable/dir before running the make process to get something similar working. Best Norbert -- PREINING Norbert http://www.preining.info Accelia Inc. + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13