Minimals on an arm-processor
Hi, on my new netbook (Hercules eCafe) I have an ubuntu. It would be possible to install the official packages of texlive and/or context. But I would prefer a new minimal installation for a single user. If I call "first-setup.sh" I get: Error: your system "Linux armv71" is not supported yet. Please report to the ConTeXt mailing-list (ntg-context@ntg.nl) Gerhard -- Gerhard Kugler Psychotherapeut Bensheim (Germany) http://www.psychotherapie-kugler.de
Hello, On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 21:48, Gerhard Kugler wrote:
Hi,
on my new netbook (Hercules eCafe) I have an ubuntu. It would be possible to install the official packages of texlive and/or context. But I would prefer a new minimal installation for a single user. If I call "first-setup.sh" I get:
Error: your system "Linux armv71" is not supported yet. Please report to the ConTeXt mailing-list (ntg-context@ntg.nl)
Thank you very much for this report. Just out of curiosity: how common are these processors? You are the first one who asked and TeX Live doesn't ship the binaries for this platform (http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/bin/). If we want to support the architecture, we need somebody to build the binaries on regular basis. And since you seem to be the first and possibly the only one using thing platform, that would probably mean you. So the main question is: are you willing to keep compiling binaries on regular basis? (I'm not sure if it is possible, but in case it is, another option is to have a virtual machine somewhere to compile the binaries.) Mojca
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:01:24PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
If we want to support the architecture, we need somebody to build the binaries on regular basis. And since you seem to be the first and possibly the only one using thing platform, that would probably mean you. So the main question is: are you willing to keep compiling binaries on regular basis?
If I can accomplish this task, I would be glad to contribute to it. For a long time I took advantage from other people in the open source community. But what are the requirements? Gerhard
(I'm not sure if it is possible, but in case it is, another option is to have a virtual machine somewhere to compile the binaries.)
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On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 23:12, Gerhard Kugler wrote:
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:01:24PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
If we want to support the architecture, we need somebody to build the binaries on regular basis. And since you seem to be the first and possibly the only one using thing platform, that would probably mean you. So the main question is: are you willing to keep compiling binaries on regular basis?
If I can accomplish this task, I would be glad to contribute to it. For a long time I took advantage from other people in the open source community. But what are the requirements?
1. You need to be able to compile TeX Live sources (now and preferably at least once (or twice in case of problems) per year): http://www.tug.org/texlive/build.html 2. You need to compile luatex and metapost: - svn co http://svn.contextgarden.net/suite/build-binaries - edit platform.sh (in case of problems or questions, please ask) - run ./bin_update_src.sh, go to src/metapost and src/luatex and try to build the two with ./build.sh 3. If you are able to accomplish both, our requirement/request would be that you would be ready to keep building luatex and metapost on regular basis. A while ago that meant twice per month. (At the moment there has been no new release since July.) This means that whenever a new version comes out, you are ready compile a new binary within a few days. I'm also CC-ing Boris Veytsman who used to be interested in compiling TeX Live for arm. Mojca
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 21:48, Gerhard Kugler wrote:
Hi,
on my new netbook (Hercules eCafe) I have an ubuntu. It would be possible to install the official packages of texlive and/or context. But I would prefer a new minimal installation for a single user. If I call "first-setup.sh" I get:
Error: your system "Linux armv71" is not supported yet. Please report to the ConTeXt mailing-list (ntg-context@ntg.nl)
We have the binaries now (kindly contributed by Boris Veytsman). My only question remains: how badly do you need ConTeXt to work *now*? Until I set everything up, you have the following options: 1.) The binaries at http://www.tug.org/texlive/files/armel-linux-tl11/ should suffice to make a single-user installation of TeX Live 2011 which has a reasonable version of ConTeXt (not the latest one, but it's a tested/patched release from early 2011). Karl says that something like "install-tl -custom-bin=whatever" should work, but I have never tested that. 2.) Adam Reviczky is maintaining some repositories at https://code.launchpad.net/~reviczky/ (but it is not a single user thing) 3.) You can copy a ConTeXt installation from whatever other platform and just add the binaries from the link above. Some minor changes are needed, but I speculate that if you set the path right, everything should work out-of-the-box. I'm asking about "how badly" because there will be a major restructuring of everything sometime soon and I would not like to spend too much time fixing the old infrastructure. Mojca
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