Dear Robert, On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 at 01:09, Robert Krug wrote: > > Now, to the reason for this note. I recently tries to install context on an > OpenBSD 6.5 AMD64 > system, but the install failed. Thanks to some helpful emails in the archives > from 2017 and 2018, > I was able to get this working by editing mtxrun and mtx-update.sh.
This would be really nice to fix eventually. Hans, we do have all the required files: https://distribution.contextgarden.net/setup/openbsd6.5/ https://distribution.contextgarden.net/setup/openbsd6.5-amd64/ ... https://distribution.contextgarden.net/current/bin/luatex/openbsd6.5-amd64/ ... but the problem is that mtxrun knows the platform under the name of "openbsd-amd64" rather than "openbsd6.5-amd64". The first-setup.sh script already correctly recognizes the name by doing the following: system=`uname -s` case "$system" in OpenBSD) version=`uname -r` platform="openbsd${version}-amd64" ;; # for 64-bit one; a separate call for 32-bit of course while mtxrun "ignores" the version name, but also ignores the parameter being passed as mtxrun --script bin/mtx-update.lua --platform=openbsd6.5-amd64 > I include what I did below. Thanks. > 1) Do the usual: > > mkdir context && cd context > rsync -ptv rsync://contextgarden.net/standalone/setup/first-setup.sh . > ./first-setup.sh > > This will silently fail, because > bin/mtx-update.lua > bin/mtxrun > do not recognize openbsd. > > 2) Edit bin/mtxrun: > > We need to define a "good" version of resolvers.platform(t,k) > At line 4049, there is a default definition. Replace it with: > > function resolvers.platform(t,k) > local platform="openbsd6.5-amd64" > os.setenv("MTX_PLATFORM",platform) > os.platform=platform > return platform > end It would be ideal to fix this properly instead, for everyone else. This is a good recipe for a workaround, but we need something better. In my opinion this might be best to maybe even fix inside luatex sources themselves. > 6) Finally, the setuptex script gives me an error message: > > megaera$ . /home/<name>/Context/tex/setuptex > /bin/ksh: /home/<name>/Context/tex/setuptex[163]: ${.sh.file}": bad > substitution > > but it is not hard to set the path correctly: > > PATH=$PATH\:/home/<name>/Context/tex/texmf-openbsd6.5-amd64/bin ; export > PATH This is something that I need to fix independently in the installation script. Do you have any clue what could be done to make it work properly on OpenBSD? Mojca PS: Hans, for some reason the 32-bit virtual machine for OpenBSD 6.5 seems broken in a bad way (I doesn't even reach the login screen), no clue what's wrong, and I don't have extensive experience with OpenBSD either. I could keep investigating, but I'll probably simply end up setting up a fresh one. It would be helpful to maybe do some disk health checks on the server, just in case. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________