Re: linux binaries split?

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 3/24/2018 1:32 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 24 March 2018 at 11:59, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wanted to use my minimal installation on arch linux this morning and
>> received this error:
>>
>> Binaries for platform 'linuxmusl-64' are missing.
>> (There is no folder "/mnt/shared/context/tex/texmf-linuxmusl-64/bin")
>> provide a proper tex root (like '. setuptex /something/tex')
>>
>> Looking into setuptex, I see indeed a test for "libc=musl" or "libc=glibc,"
>> so it appears that we now have two sets of binaries for linux-64? Is this
>> supposed to be a long-term thing or just in the preparation for texlive
>> 2018? (I share my minimal directory between several linux installations, so
>> I assume I would need both sets?)
> 
> The binaries were requested (and provided) by Henri Menke:
>     https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2018/090611.html
> 
>  From what I understood (maybe I misunderstood) the regular linux
> binaries would not even work on machines with musl, but maybe you have
> both libc and musl installed?
> 
> It was not meant to be a short-term thing (unless/until we figure out
> that there are too many problems with it and nobody uses it), but it
> was probably never even tested properly and Hans did not yet implement
> support in mtxrun, so maybe installing out-of-the-box would not yet
> work, I don't have a machine to test it.
> 
> All the required binaries should be there though.
yes but setuptex, first-setup and mtx-update need to be in sync .. i 
adapted what i have and it will be in the next beta but i cannot test it 
as i have no such linux

Hans


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