Risposta: Risposta: installing ConTeXt on ARM linux

[MF <massifr@fastwebnet.it>]

Il giorno ven, 06/10/2017 alle 16.06 +0200, Floris van Manen ha
scritto:
> > On 6 Oct 2017, at 13:42, MF <massifr@fastwebnet.it> 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
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