Linux PPC64 & minimals

Linux PPC64 & minimals

[Roger Mason]

Hello,

I just tried to install the minimals on:

uname -a
Linux perthite 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #6 SMP Wed Jan 13 17:59:36 NST 2010
ppc64 PPC970FX, altivec supported PowerMac7,3 GNU/Linux

but got:

sh ./first-setup.sh
Error: your system "Linux ppc64" is not supported yet.
Please report to the ConTeXt mailing-list (ntg-context@ntg.nl)

The machine reports as ppc64 but it is running a 64 bit kernel with 32
bit userland.

I'd like to know how to proceed.  If necessary I am quite willing to
build the minimals on this platform and contribute the binaries back to
the wiki.

Cheers,
Roger
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Re: Linux PPC64 & minimals

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On Feb 1, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Roger Mason wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I just tried to install the minimals on:
> 
> uname -a
> Linux perthite 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #6 SMP Wed Jan 13 17:59:36 NST 2010
> ppc64 PPC970FX, altivec supported PowerMac7,3 GNU/Linux
> 
> but got:
> 
> sh ./first-setup.sh
> Error: your system "Linux ppc64" is not supported yet.
> Please report to the ConTeXt mailing-list (ntg-context@ntg.nl)
> 
> The machine reports as ppc64 but it is running a 64 bit kernel with 32
> bit userland.
> 
> I'd like to know how to proceed.  If necessary I am quite willing to
> build the minimals on this platform and contribute the binaries back to
> the wiki.
> 
> Cheers,
> Roger

Oops, I thought we had fixed that... Anyways: the easiest solution is to open first-setup.sh in an editor. line 28 has

      ppc) platform="linux-ppc" ;;

you can either change that to 

      ppc64) platform="linux-ppc" ;;

or add such a new line after it. The minimals should work on your system (they do work on my ppc64 box). 

Good luck

Thomas
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Re: Linux PPC64 & minimals

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 15:43, Roger Mason wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just tried to install the minimals on:
>
> uname -a
> Linux perthite 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #6 SMP Wed Jan 13 17:59:36 NST 2010
> ppc64 PPC970FX, altivec supported PowerMac7,3 GNU/Linux
>
> but got:
>
> sh ./first-setup.sh
> Error: your system "Linux ppc64" is not supported yet.
> Please report to the ConTeXt mailing-list (ntg-context@ntg.nl)
>
> The machine reports as ppc64 but it is running a 64 bit kernel with 32
> bit userland.
>
> I'd like to know how to proceed.  If necessary I am quite willing to
> build the minimals on this platform and contribute the binaries back to
> the wiki.

Oh, it's nice to hear that Apple is not the only game spoiler :) :) :)

So: 32-bit binaries are working on 64-bit machine, but 64-bit binaries
would fit better if they existed?

Mojca
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Re: Linux PPC64 & minimals

[Roger Mason]

hello Thomas,

"Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> writes:

> On Feb 1, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Roger Mason wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I just tried to install the minimals on:
>> 
>> uname -a
>> Linux perthite 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #6 SMP Wed Jan 13 17:59:36 NST 2010
>> ppc64 PPC970FX, altivec supported PowerMac7,3 GNU/Linux
>
> Oops, I thought we had fixed that... Anyways: the easiest solution is to open first-setup.sh in an editor. line 28 has
>
>       ppc) platform="linux-ppc" ;;
>
> you can either change that to 
>
>       ppc64) platform="linux-ppc" ;;
>
> or add such a new line after it. The minimals should work on your system (they do work on my ppc64 box). 

Thanks. It is downloading now.  I'll let you know how it turns out.

Cheers,
Roger
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Re: Linux PPC64 & minimals

[Roger Mason]

Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 15:43, Roger Mason wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just tried to install the minimals on:
>>
>> uname -a
>> Linux perthite 2.6.30-gentoo-r5 #6 SMP Wed Jan 13 17:59:36 NST 2010
>> ppc64 PPC970FX, altivec supported PowerMac7,3 GNU/Linux
>>
>
> Oh, it's nice to hear that Apple is not the only game spoiler :) :) :)
>
> So: 32-bit binaries are working on 64-bit machine, but 64-bit binaries
> would fit better if they existed?

Dunno.  I _think_ I need the 32 bit binaries: everything else on
the machine was (or should have been) built as 32 bit even though the
kernel is 64 bit.

The linux-ppc binaries are downloading now, I'll let you know what
happens.

Cheers,
Roger
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Re: Linux PPC64 & minimals

[Roger Mason]

Roger Mason <rmason@mun.ca> writes:

>
> Thanks. It is downloading now.  I'll let you know how it turns out.
>

MKII  works:

texexec --mode=manuscript --result=Manuscript.pdf --purge TheFourCs.tex

ConTeXt  ver: 2010.02.01 11:19 MKII  fmt: 2010.2.1  int: english/english
....

The document is made correctly, but the texexec run ends with:

TeXExec | renaming TheFourCs to Manuscript
TeXExec | restoring TheFourCs
sh: CtxTools: command not found
sh: version: command not found
sh: line 2: CtxTools: command not found
sh: line 2: --bbeditinterface: command not found
sh: line 3: CtxTools: command not found
sh: line 3: --brandfiles: command not found
sh: line 4: CtxTools: command not found
sh: line 4: --contextversion: command not found
sh: line 5: CtxTools: command not found
sh: line 5: --dependencies: command not found
sh: line 5: filenames]]: command not found
sh: line 6: CtxTools: command not found
sh: line 6: --disarmutfbom: command not found
sh: line 7: CtxTools: command not found
sh: line 7: --documentation: command not found
sh: line 8: CtxTools: command not found
sh: line 8: --dpxmapfiles: command not found
sh: line 9: CtxTools: command not found
sh: line 9: --jeditinterface: command not found
sh: line 10: CtxTools: command not found
sh: line 10: --listentities: command not found
sh: line 11: CtxTools: command not found
sh: line 11: --patternfiles: command not found
sh: line 12: CtxTools: command not found
sh: line 12: --platformize: command not found
sh: line 13: CtxTools: command not found
sh: line 13: --purgefiles: command not found
sh: line 14: CtxTools: command not found
sh: line 14: --rawinterface: command not found
sh: line 15: CtxTools: command not found
sh: line 15: --sciteinterface: command not found
sh: line 16: CtxTools: command not found
sh: line 16: --touchcontextfile: command not found
sh: line 17: CtxTools: command not found
sh: line 17: --updatecontext: command not found
sh: line 18: --purge: command not found

I doubt this has anything to do with 32 vs 64 bit binaries, however, as
I see the same message on a X86_64 machine at home and that one is all
64 bit.

Thanks,
Roger
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Re: Linux PPC64 & minimals

[Hans Hagen]

On 1-2-2010 16:41, Roger Mason wrote:
> Roger Mason<rmason@mun.ca>  writes:
>
>>
>> Thanks. It is downloading now.  I'll let you know how it turns out.
>>
>
> MKII  works:
>
> texexec --mode=manuscript --result=Manuscript.pdf --purge TheFourCs.tex
>
> ConTeXt  ver: 2010.02.01 11:19 MKII  fmt: 2010.2.1  int: english/english
> .....
>
> The document is made correctly, but the texexec run ends with:
>
> TeXExec | renaming TheFourCs to Manuscript
> TeXExec | restoring TheFourCs
> sh: CtxTools: command not found
> sh: version: command not found

this is a strange error (--purge triggers it)

looks like the banner is executed or so

Hans


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Re: Linux PPC64 & minimals

[Mojca Miklavec]

Two remarks:

1.) Thomas, can you please send me the patch (I can write it myself,
but I will not be 100% to get it right). It seems that we need to
modify that in several different places (mtx-something.lua, setuptex
and first-setup.sh).

2.) The error is not related to minimals/wrong architecture. There may
be several reasons. Different shell? Missing mkiv formats? (Can you
try "luatools --generate"? It could be that mtxrun doesn't find
ctxtools.) Something third?

Does compiling a simple document work?

Mojca
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Re: Linux PPC64 & minimals

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> Two remarks:
>
> 1.) Thomas, can you please send me the patch (I can write it myself,
> but I will not be 100% to get it right). It seems that we need to
> modify that in several different places (mtx-something.lua, setuptex
> and first-setup.sh).
>

Will do tonight. I have only changed it in one place (first-setup.sh)  
and have been using the minimals on this computer without any problems  
(but I have my own script to adjust path etc.).

> 2.) The error is not related to minimals/wrong architecture. There may
> be several reasons. Different shell? Missing mkiv formats? (Can you
> try "luatools --generate"? It could be that mtxrun doesn't find
> ctxtools.) Something third?
>

Yes, we need more info.

Best

Thomas
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Re: Linux PPC64 & minimals

[Roger Mason]

Hi Mojca,

Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> writes:

> 2.) The error is not related to minimals/wrong architecture. There may
> be several reasons. 

Agreed.  I see the same problem on an X86_64 system.

> Different shell? 

echo $SHELL -> /bin/bash (4.0_p28)

> Missing mkiv formats? (Can you
> try "luatools --generate"? It could be that mtxrun doesn't find
> ctxtools.)

Tried that.  I still get the same error.

> Something third?

As Hans remarked: it is --purge that triggers the error.

> Does compiling a simple document work?

% simple.tex
\starttext
\input knuth
\stoptext

texexec --purge simple.tex -> Output written on simple.pdf (1 page,
28424 bytes).

texexec simple.tex -> Output written on simple.pdf (1 page, 28424
bytes).

The document is always produced correctly, but --purge does not do its
job and produces the errors listed in my original post.

Cheers,
Roger
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Re: Linux PPC64 & minimals

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 15:15, Roger Mason wrote:
> Hi Mojca,
>
> texexec --purge simple.tex -> Output written on simple.pdf (1 page,
> 28424 bytes).
>
> texexec simple.tex -> Output written on simple.pdf (1 page, 28424
> bytes).
>
> The document is always produced correctly, but --purge does not do its
> job and produces the errors listed in my original post.

OK, that's reproducible here as well.

Mojca
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Re: Linux PPC64 & minimals

[Taco Hoekwater]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 15:15, Roger Mason wrote:
>> Hi Mojca,
>>
>> texexec --purge simple.tex -> Output written on simple.pdf (1 page,
>> 28424 bytes).
>>
>> texexec simple.tex -> Output written on simple.pdf (1 page, 28424
>> bytes).
>>
>> The document is always produced correctly, but --purge does not do its
>> job and produces the errors listed in my original post.
> 
> OK, that's reproducible here as well.

Different ruby version?  I have no errors here, and

   $ ruby -v
   ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [x86_64-linux]

Best wishes,
Taco
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Re: Linux PPC64 & minimals

[Roger Mason]

Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> writes:

> Different ruby version?  I have no errors here, and
>
>   $ ruby -v
>   ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [x86_64-linux]

ruby 1.8.6 (2009-06-08 patchlevel 369) [powerpc-linux]

Cheers,
Roger
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