Minimals on an arm-processor

Minimals on an arm-processor

[Gerhard Kugler]

Hi,

on my new netbook (Hercules eCafe) I have an ubuntu. It would be
possible to install the official packages of texlive and/or context.
But I would prefer a new minimal installation for a single user. If I
call "first-setup.sh" I get:

Error: your system "Linux armv71" is not supported yet.
Please report to the ConTeXt  mailing-list (ntg-context@ntg.nl)


Gerhard

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Gerhard Kugler
Psychotherapeut
Bensheim (Germany)
http://www.psychotherapie-kugler.de
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Re: Minimals on an arm-processor

[Mojca Miklavec]

Hello,

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 21:48, Gerhard Kugler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on my new netbook (Hercules eCafe) I have an ubuntu. It would be
> possible to install the official packages of texlive and/or context.
> But I would prefer a new minimal installation for a single user. If I
> call "first-setup.sh" I get:
>
> Error: your system "Linux armv71" is not supported yet.
> Please report to the ConTeXt  mailing-list (ntg-context@ntg.nl)

Thank you very much for this report.

Just out of curiosity: how common are these processors? You are the
first one who asked and TeX Live doesn't ship the binaries for this
platform (http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/bin/).

If we want to support the architecture, we need somebody to build the
binaries on regular basis. And since you seem to be the first and
possibly the only one using thing platform, that would probably mean
you. So the main question is: are you willing to keep compiling
binaries on regular basis?

(I'm not sure if it is possible, but in case it is, another option is
to have a virtual machine somewhere to compile the binaries.)

Mojca
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Re: Minimals on an arm-processor

[Gerhard Kugler]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:01:24PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
 
> If we want to support the architecture, we need somebody to build the
> binaries on regular basis. And since you seem to be the first and
> possibly the only one using thing platform, that would probably mean
> you. So the main question is: are you willing to keep compiling
> binaries on regular basis?
> 

If I can accomplish this task, I would be glad to contribute to it.
For a long time I took advantage from other people in the open source
community. But what are the requirements?

Gerhard

> (I'm not sure if it is possible, but in case it is, another option is
> to have a virtual machine somewhere to compile the binaries.)
> 
> Mojca
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Re: Minimals on an arm-processor

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 23:12, Gerhard Kugler wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:01:24PM +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> If we want to support the architecture, we need somebody to build the
>> binaries on regular basis. And since you seem to be the first and
>> possibly the only one using thing platform, that would probably mean
>> you. So the main question is: are you willing to keep compiling
>> binaries on regular basis?
>>
>
> If I can accomplish this task, I would be glad to contribute to it.
> For a long time I took advantage from other people in the open source
> community. But what are the requirements?

1. You need to be able to compile TeX Live sources (now and preferably
at least once (or twice in case of problems) per year):
    http://www.tug.org/texlive/build.html

2. You need to compile luatex and metapost:

- svn co http://svn.contextgarden.net/suite/build-binaries
- edit platform.sh (in case of problems or questions, please ask)
- run ./bin_update_src.sh, go to src/metapost and src/luatex and try
to build the two with ./build.sh

3. If you are able to accomplish both, our requirement/request would
be that you would be ready to keep building luatex and metapost on
regular basis. A while ago that meant twice per month. (At the moment
there has been no new release since July.) This means that whenever a
new version comes out, you are ready compile a new binary within a few
days.

I'm also CC-ing Boris Veytsman who used to be interested in compiling
TeX Live for arm.

Mojca
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Re: Minimals on an arm-processor

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 21:48, Gerhard Kugler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on my new netbook (Hercules eCafe) I have an ubuntu. It would be
> possible to install the official packages of texlive and/or context.
> But I would prefer a new minimal installation for a single user. If I
> call "first-setup.sh" I get:
>
> Error: your system "Linux armv71" is not supported yet.
> Please report to the ConTeXt  mailing-list (ntg-context@ntg.nl)

We have the binaries now (kindly contributed by Boris Veytsman). My
only question remains: how badly do you need ConTeXt to work *now*?

Until I set everything up, you have the following options:

1.) The binaries at http://www.tug.org/texlive/files/armel-linux-tl11/
should suffice to make a single-user installation of TeX Live 2011
which has a reasonable version of ConTeXt (not the latest one, but
it's a tested/patched release from early 2011). Karl says that
something like "install-tl -custom-bin=whatever" should work, but I
have never tested that.

2.) Adam Reviczky is maintaining some repositories at
https://code.launchpad.net/~reviczky/ (but it is not a single user
thing)

3.) You can copy a ConTeXt installation from whatever other platform
and just add the binaries from the link above. Some minor changes are
needed, but I speculate that if you set the path right, everything
should work out-of-the-box.

I'm asking about "how badly" because there will be a major
restructuring of everything sometime soon and I would not like to
spend too much time fixing the old infrastructure.

Mojca
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