Re: Build for Alpine Linux

[Henri Menke <henrimenke@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 2018-04-08 at 22:50 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Dear Brian,
> 
> On 8 April 2018 at 16:56, Brian Hunt wrote:
> > 
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > Per this question on tex.StackOverflow, I am having trouble getting ConTeXt
> > (LuaTeX specifically) to run on Alpine Linux:
> > 
> > https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/425463
> > 
> > Specifically, the build from ConTeXt standalone has a LuaTeX that seems not
> > to run against the musl libc6 library.
> We have a "nearly working" one. At least all the binaries should be
> there, see for example:
>     http://distribution.contextgarden.net/setup/linuxmusl-64/
> 
> There are two to three remaining problems:
> 
> 1.) I disabled automatic musl recognition (short after enabling it)
> after this bug report:
>     https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2018/091094.html
> I need to finish "parsing"
>     https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2018/091123.html
> and a few other posts in that thread and maybe make some additional
> testing. There was some "oh no, it has to be the other way around"
> discussion where I no longer followed and I need some more time to
> read everything more carefully (no time for that right now).

This only blows up on Zsh.  I will contact the "config.guess" maintainer (from
where I stole that snippet).

> 
> 2.) Most likely a patch in mtxrun is still needed (but I admit that I
> didn't check) for proper platform recognition. The fact that we are
> struggling in shell doesn't really help doing this part either :)
> 
> 3.) Ideally we need to set up some automated LuaTeX builds to be able
> to get the latest LuaTeX binaries in the future.
> 
> > 
> > Has anyone run ConTeXt on Alpine?
> At the moment it should work if you install TeX Live 2018 pretest with
> the ConTeXt scheme or if you fiddle a bit with the installation (you
> need to hardcode the platform name in first-setup.sh and then still
> some minor things might still go wrong, not sure). But in fact very
> little is required to fix the remaining issues.
> 
> Can you please remind us to pick this up again in a couple of days?
> 
> In the meantime, if you are willing to do some more extensive testing
> of patches (see full thread linked above) on both musl & non-musl
> linuxes, in various shells etc., as well as perhaps come up with a
> patch for mtxrun, that might help.
> 
> Mojca
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