On 01/20/2018 12:22 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On 19 January 2018 at 11:40, Henri Menke wrote:
Dear list,
I'd like to support Linux platforms which use musl (https://www.musl-libc.org/) instead of glibc, like for instance Alpine Linux.
How would I go about this? Can you share existing build scripts for, e.g. Linux-64? Do I have to provide build infrastructure?
Can you please raise that question on the TeX Live mailing list?
If TL team is not willing to support it, we can still do it ourselves, but let's first see if there's an "official" way to support it, also with respect to naming. We would need to set up a VM running that version of Linux + some other stuff (at the moment we are experiencing some technical issues with network and the build infrastructure and we need to fix the existing issues first, but then we could look into it).
(Would you expect any other use besides you?)
Definitely the whole community of the Alpine and Void Linux distributions. The Alpine people have a build script in their ports tree, but this does not build LuaJITTeX and---well---you have to build the entire TeXlive yourself which is quite time consuming. https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/testing/texlive/APKBUILD https://forum.voidlinux.eu/t/latex-texlive-on-void-musl/2631 Alpine Linux seems to be extremely popular in the container industry, e.g. Docker, and I wanted to base my ConTeXt Docker image on that (but can't at the moment).
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