[NTG-context] Re: Trouble installing on Alpine Linux

On 22 Jun 2024, at 17:14, Bryan Kaplan via ntg-context wrote:

On 2024-06-22 at 04:51:48-06:00, Bruce Horrocks set forth:

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Not sure if this helps but a while back I was able to produce a Docker build of Context based on Alpine.

The instructions and Docker file are here: https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg98307.html

Thank you, Bruce. I appreciate your help, but I'm not sure it applies — please correct me if I'm mistaken. I'm running Alpine on bare metal, and the musl `luametatex` binary seems operable. The problem seems, as far as I can tell, that the installation failed to establish whatever settings provide defaults, which is why (for example) it has no format file by default. I could certainly be wrong, as this is very new to me.

Sincerely, Bryan Kaplan

Sorry, I mis-remembered: at that time there was no MUSL version of Context so it was a way of getting gibc installed and using the regular Linux version. — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK