On Sun, 2018-04-08 at 22:50 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Dear Brian, > > On 8 April 2018 at 16:56, Brian Hunt wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > Per this question on tex.StackOverflow, I am having trouble getting ConTeXt > > (LuaTeX specifically) to run on Alpine Linux: > > > > https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/425463 > > > > Specifically, the build from ConTeXt standalone has a LuaTeX that seems not > > to run against the musl libc6 library. > We have a "nearly working" one. At least all the binaries should be > there, see for example: > http://distribution.contextgarden.net/setup/linuxmusl-64/ > > There are two to three remaining problems: > > 1.) I disabled automatic musl recognition (short after enabling it) > after this bug report: > https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2018/091094.html > I need to finish "parsing" > https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2018/091123.html > and a few other posts in that thread and maybe make some additional > testing. There was some "oh no, it has to be the other way around" > discussion where I no longer followed and I need some more time to > read everything more carefully (no time for that right now).
This only blows up on Zsh. I will contact the "config.guess" maintainer (from where I stole that snippet). > > 2.) Most likely a patch in mtxrun is still needed (but I admit that I > didn't check) for proper platform recognition. The fact that we are > struggling in shell doesn't really help doing this part either :) > > 3.) Ideally we need to set up some automated LuaTeX builds to be able > to get the latest LuaTeX binaries in the future. > > > > > Has anyone run ConTeXt on Alpine? > At the moment it should work if you install TeX Live 2018 pretest with > the ConTeXt scheme or if you fiddle a bit with the installation (you > need to hardcode the platform name in first-setup.sh and then still > some minor things might still go wrong, not sure). But in fact very > little is required to fix the remaining issues. > > Can you please remind us to pick this up again in a couple of days? > > In the meantime, if you are willing to do some more extensive testing > of patches (see full thread linked above) on both musl & non-musl > linuxes, in various shells etc., as well as perhaps come up with a > patch for mtxrun, that might help. > > Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
