November 2009 - binary-builders

[Context] [Bug 379146] [NEW] mtxrun
by Mojca Miklavec 11 Jun '11

11 Jun '11

Public bug reported: from Alan BRASLAU, untested I did a fresh install of the minimals today and observed a fleeting, obscure mtxrun bug: $ context myfile did not find the script mtx-context.lua $ mtxrun --script /usr/local/context/tex/texmf-context/\ scripts/context/lua/mtx-context.lua myfile ran fine, as now does all subsequent runs of "context myfile". So something gets initialized, but is not found by default. You will only notice this upon a (totally) fresh install. ** Affects: context Importance: Undecided Status: New -- mtxrun https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379146 You received this bug notification because you are a member of ConTeXt distribution team, which is the registrant for ConTeXt distribution. Status in ConTeXt distribution: New Bug description: from Alan BRASLAU, untested I did a fresh install of the minimals today and observed a fleeting, obscure mtxrun bug: $ context myfile did not find the script mtx-context.lua $ mtxrun --script /usr/local/context/tex/texmf-context/\ scripts/context/lua/mtx-context.lua myfile ran fine, as now does all subsequent runs of "context myfile". So something gets initialized, but is not found by default. You will only notice this upon a (totally) fresh install.

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[Context] new building scripts (important)
by Mojca Miklavec 19 Dec '09

19 Dec '09

Hello, I have changed the building scripts a bit: - they are now split in several pretty standalone steps: a) fetching sources b) fetching existing binaries from svn c) building d) committing to SVN (not implemented yet) - there is more error checking - if some engine doesn't build, the process may still continue - it's possible to force rebuilding even if versions match - it should be possible to choose which engines to build, but option parsing is not implemented yet - there are many differences that influence Mac OS X building, but you should not bother about them anyway - buiding xetex disabled until we get support for 64-bit - it should be possible to build from any mac (at least in theory) - support for 64-bit architecture and fat binaries now from all the three relevant architectures I did that because there were constant problems when some of the steps failed to work and also because I had to modify the OS X part (why does Mac always need to be an exception? :). You may try to do svn up ./do_all.sh and report back about any problems that you might encounter. I would be grateful for any bug reports. This command will not commit to SVN yet, but there's VERSIONS.new that should be moved to VERSIONS and there is VERSIONS.svn that should be used as commit message, so the last step is almost-trivial to do manually as well, I just need to code it :) Mojca

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[Context] One more arch (OS X, snow leopard)
by Yue Wang 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Hi, Mojca: Maybe we need one more arch:) Yue:context yue$ uname -a Darwin Yue.local 10.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:46:25 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 Yue:context yue$ sh first-setup.sh Error: your system "Darwin x86_64" is not supported yet. Please report to the ConTeXt mailing-list (ntg-context(a)ntg.nl) Snow Leopard, boot from the x86_64 kernel. Yue Wang

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