Re: ConTeXt on linux-armhf

[Jose Luis Arellano <jose.4rellano@gmail.com>]

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I have performed a clean installation of ConTeXt Standalone beta and when i
try to compile i get this:

error loading file: lang-txt.lua (aborting)
mtx-context     | error, no format found with name: cont-en, aborting

2016-08-08 16:16 GMT-03:00 Jose Luis Arellano <jose.4rellano@gmail.com>:

> Well, if i use the binary from http://tug.org/svn/
> texlive/trunk/Master/bin/armel-linux/ (Revision 41089) i get "Segmentation
> fault".
> However, the binary from http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/bin/
> armhf-linux/ (Revision 41117) seems to work perfectly fine.
> Thanks guys.
>
> 2016-08-08 5:14 GMT-03:00 Henri Menke <henrimenke@gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> as far as I know, there is no such thing like the standard ARM chip.  The
>> ARM company designs chips to fit the needs of their customers.  Therefore,
>> the Raspberry Pi processor and the processor in a smartphone may have a
>> very different instruction set.
>>
>> The Wikipedia page for the ARM Cortex-A7 (Raspberry Pi 2 Model B) lists
>> several other chips implementing the Cortex-A7 instruction set.  I would
>> only guarantee compatibility with these chips if the binaries were built
>> for this architecture.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A7
>>
>> Another issue I could think of is the filesystem format.  This is very
>> heterogeneous among Android vendors.  I think Samsung uses f2fs, HTC uses
>> YAFFS, and LG uses ext4.  It could be that the luatex binary runs on some
>> kind of compatibility layer within Android which is either lacking correct
>> filesystem syscalls or is doing them wrong.
>>
>> These are just ideas.  I hope it helps anyway.
>> Cheers, Henri
>>
>> On 08/08/2016 09:46 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> > On 8 August 2016 at 06:53, Jose Luis Arellano wrote:
>> >> Hi Mojca,
>> >>
>> >> The binaries comes from armhf (your build), as you can see in logs
>> attached.
>> >> While the version of Tex Live installed is texlive-bin-2016.41290-5-
>> armv7h.
>> >
>> > armv7h looks like "armhf".
>> >
>> > But I checked the logs and you are most likely using the binaries that
>> > were compiled for Arch Linux and your machine (CPU) specifically
>> > rather than the ones that are compiled by the TeX Live team.
>> >
>> > Can you try replacing the luatex binary in ConTeXt distribution with
>> > the binaries from
>> >     http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/bin/
>> > please try once with armel-linux/luatex and once with
>> > armhf-linux/luatex. (You can fetch the binary via SVN or via viewvc,
>> > but make sure that the downloaded file will be executable.)
>> >
>> > I'm curious whether that binary works for you (try with armhf-linux
>> first).
>> >
>> >> Maybe the problem is related to architecture of cpu, the latest
>> raspbian use
>> >> ARMv8.
>> >
>> > The exact architecture depends on hardware rather than software. I
>> > guess we have RPi2 B (Hans must know). For some reason I cannot access
>> > the machine at the moment, but I guess that RPi2+ is also armv7 (ARM
>> > Cortex-A7). I'm not 100% sure though.
>> >
>> > The question is whether an older version of OS would help in any way.
>> >
>> > In any case you should be able to just copy the luatex from your
>> > distro to the minimals and get a working PDF.
>> >
>> > Mojca
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