From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: a question on setuptex
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 10:23:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4f58f88-c659-e9bd-450b-6b7ac7607a5a@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBOmsbtcF5_0E353rjCAx7TVahFwvO7Af-6jVm1YRxOdg=n7g@mail.gmail.com>
On 2/17/2017 11:49 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 17 February 2017 at 23:38, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>> Hans,
>>
>> would it be possible that a 32bit ConTeXt Suite can be used with a 64bit
>> architecture in Linux?
>>
>> Sorry, but yesterday I was surprised to see that setuptex isn’t able to
>> find any binaries in Linux if they are 32bit and the processor is 64bit.
>>
>> Of course, it makes sense in that case that a ConTeXt Suite with 64bit
>> binaries is preferred. But as a fallback, 32bit binaries should be fine.
>
> It should work in principle. Just set "platform=linux" before calling
> mtx-update.lua and disable '--make'. (You could in principle also call
> rsync manually.) And then all you need to do is set the PATH to
> binaries.
>
> The problem is that unless something changed, mtxrun will most likely
> be causing you some troubles and will insist in fetching x86_64 (I'm
> not sure how to completely avoid that).
maybe putting 32 bit bins in the 64 bit directory works ..
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-17 22:38 Pablo Rodriguez
2017-02-17 22:46 ` Alan Braslau
2017-02-17 22:49 ` Mojca Miklavec
2017-02-18 9:23 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2017-02-18 22:08 ` Pablo Rodriguez
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