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

[Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

On 6/22/2024 6:14 PM, Bryan Kaplan via ntg-context wrote:
> On 2024-06-22 at 04:51:48-06:00, Bruce Horrocks set forth:
>> 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 
>> <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.
i just tested again an install (using the latest musl installer) on an 
alpine WSL instance and it works ok; i can also process a tex file (when 
i set the path right as reported by the installer)

\starttext test \stoptext :

mkiv lua stats  > used platform: linuxmusl-64, type: unix, binary 
subtree: texmf-linuxmusl-64
mkiv lua stats  > used engine: luametatex version: 2.11.04, 
functionality level: 2024014, format id: 703, compiler: gcc
mkiv lua stats  > tex properties: 807106 hash slots used of 2097152, 
52050 control sequences, approximate memory usage: 49 MB
mkiv lua stats  > lua properties: engine: lua 5.5, used memory: 57 MB, 
ctx: 54 MB, max: 54 MB, symbol mask: utf (τεχ)
mkiv lua stats  > runtime: 0.488 seconds, 1 processed pages, 1 shipped 
pages, 2.050 pages/second


Hans

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