trying to install ConTeXt on an ARM (ubuntu) linux hos, then get this message with the request to report is on the mailing list: $ sh ./first-setup.sh --engine=luatex Error: your system "Linux aarch64" is not supported yet. Please report to the ConTeXt mailing-list (ntg-context@ntg.nl) is there a (beta) working version somewhere? Thanks .F

On 5 October 2017 at 22:52, Floris van Manen wrote:

trying to install ConTeXt on an ARM (ubuntu) linux hos, then get this message with the request to report is on the mailing list:

$ sh ./first-setup.sh --engine=luatex Error: your system "Linux aarch64" is not supported yet. Please report to the ConTeXt mailing-list (ntg-context@ntg.nl)

is there a (beta) working version somewhere?

We didn't yet attempt to set up 64-bit binaries, even though I admit a crime of having Pine64 [1] in a drawer since the end of the Kickstarted campaign (which was more than a year ago). I even considered bringing it to the ConTeXt meeting and setting it up there, but I only set up the Raspberry (there was enough of other things to do and an unique opportunity to talk to other developers, so too much hacking would not be desirable). I can try to set it up (the only problem is that I will be away for nearly a month and might not manage to set it up before I leave) in which case you would get all the binaries working automatically. The other alternative is that someone else builds both TeX Live binaries and LuaTeX for now and we add a new machine to our buildfarm later. In any case we need to manually add that architecture to the list to start syncing the necessary binaries. Johannes was thinking of adding binaries to TeX Live. Mojca [1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pine64/pine-a64-first-15-64-bit-single-...

i have this snazzy little €30 quad core ARM board with 8GB eMMC. It runs my python3 scripts at 1/3 the speed of my MacBookPro mid 2009. http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_NEO_Plus2 To me it looks like a perfect network ConTeXt server. If there is something i can do to get the ConTeXt ARM going, please let me know. .F

On 6 Oct 2017, at 11:46, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 10/6/2017 9:10 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

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[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pine64/pine-a64-first-15-64-bit-single-...

so why not:

https://www.parallella.org/board/

(luigi will love it to mess with all these extra cores)

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On 10/6/2017 1:42 PM, MF wrote:

Il giorno ven, 06/10/2017 alle 12.37 +0200, Floris van Manen ha scritto:

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i have this snazzy little €30 quad core ARM board with 8GB eMMC. It runs my python3 scripts at 1/3 the speed of my MacBookPro mid 2009.

http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_NEO_Plus2

To me it looks like a perfect network ConTeXt server. If there is something i can do to get the ConTeXt ARM going, please let me know.

.F

You could follow this:

https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-neo-plus2/

Once they get to support it, you could download the texlive context package that comes with Debian. normally we're a bit ahead of texlive and we use the compile farm to make binaries then (either of not via cross compiling)

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Il giorno ven, 06/10/2017 alle 16.06 +0200, Floris van Manen ha scritto:

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On 6 Oct 2017, at 13:42, MF wrote:

Once they get to support it, you could download the texlive context package that comes with Debian.

thanks for the hint. it turns out that the ubuntu distribution for the nanopi board has the context packages included already. (and it works ;-)

mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 0.61 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2015.05.18 12:26

That is quite old. I read that the H5 CPU is an ARMv8-A, that is user space compatible with 32bit ARM software. You could try this: - edit first-setup.sh - comment out the line cpu=`uname -m` like this: # cpu=`uname -m` - in the following line write this: cpu = "armv7l" - save and run the script This hack is to make the script believe it's running on an ARM 32 bit platform, and download the latest ARM 32 bit beta of ConTeXt. (still there could be a problem with the platform, soft or hardware floating point, let us know) I can't assure that it works, it's a hack, but it should not brick your board. Best wishes, Massi

On 10/10/2017 04:35 PM, Peter Rolf wrote:

Just a hint:

pstoedit seems to be incompatible (uses a deprecated option) with the actual gs (v9.22). I tested it with v9.18 and all worked fine. Of course the transparency was removed in the process of the eps export. Not a real problem with the metapost code at hand.

pstoedit -v -ssp -f "mpost:" transparent.eps transparent.mp

Many thanks for your reply, Peter. pstoedit uses a very basic PostScript drawing model that isn’t enough for the vectors I need to convert.

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Is that right or could something get lost in the translation?

All unsupported features (like transparency).

I found the command for the transparency issues: \setupcolors[pagecolormodel=auto] At least, veraPDF doesn’t complain anymore. Only color profiles for external figures have to be solved. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk