On 1/23/2025 8:25 AM, Christian Prim via ntg-context wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> Fresh install today on a new computer. I get this error during the
> install process and after an attempted update:
>
> loading         > ConTeXt Spacing Macros / Horizontal
> resolvers       > lua > loading file '/home/christian/context/tex/texmf-
> context/tex/context/base/mkxl/spac-hor.lmt' succeeded
> tex error       > tex error on line 34 in file spac-hor.mkxl: Undefined
> control sequence
>
> <line 3.34>
>      \bitwiseflip \normalizeparmode \removetrailingspacesnormalizeparcode
>
> <empty file>
> The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message
> was never
> \def'ed. You can just continue as I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
> resolvers       | formats |
> resolvers       | formats | binary path      : /home/christian/context/
> tex/texmf-linux-aarch64/bin
> resolvers       | formats | format path      : /home/christian/context/
> tex/texmf-cache/luametatex-cache/
> context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/luametatex
> resolvers       | formats | luatex engine    : luametatex
> resolvers       | formats | lua startup file : /home/christian/context/
> tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/luat-cod.lmt
> resolvers       | formats | context file     : /home/christian/context/
> tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkxl/cont-en.mkxl
> resolvers       | formats | run time         : 2.498 seconds
> resolvers       | formats | return value     : error
> resolvers       | formats |
> system          | total runtime: 2.760 seconds of 2.881 seconds
>
> I can't generate the needed cont-en format file for context to work.
>
> Is that a known problem? Am I missing something? I don't think it is
> related to the aarch64 architecture. But who knows...
>
> Thanks for your help!

The aarch 64 buiuld is a bit ragile because it runs on a vm on an arm
mac that has timing issues and occasionally drops off line, so it can be
that we have an old (or bad) binary occasionally.

You can try to compile yourself (just run the build script in the source
tree and move the binaries to the right spot afterwards).

I'll probably update one of these days anyway,

Hans

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