texlua issue on raspberry pi

[Henri Menke]

On Fri, 2022-04-15 at 17:06 -0400, Bob Tennent wrote:
> > I'm now compiling TeX Live on Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster).
> 
> Thanks.  I'm actually currently re-installing TL2021.  Would I need
> to
> re-install TL2022 and replace the binaries?

It's very likely that you could even use TeX Live 2022 with old
binaries from TeX Live 2021. Then you don't have to reinstall the whole
thing. I don't think there were any big engine changes between 2021 and
2022 whose absence would break newer macro code.

Cheers, Henri

> 
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 4:56 PM Reinhard Kotucha
> <reinhard.kotucha at gmx.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 2022-04-15 at 15:52:07 -0400, Bob Tennent wrote:
> > 
> >  >> Please make sure that you are running Raspian 11 (Bullseye)
> > since
> >  >> that's what the armhf binaries of TeX Live have been compiled
> > for.
> >  >
> >  > Apparently I'm not but I have no intention of updating the
> >  > operating system on this device. Is there no alternative
> > approach?
> >  > I suppose I could reinstall TL2021, which didn't have this
> > issue.
> > 
> > It's definitely not desirable to compile the binaries with the
> > latest
> > OS release, just in order to avoid these nasty libc problems.
> > 
> > For this reason Karl deliberately compiles TL for x86_64-linux on a
> > reasonably old system.  They perfectly work on newer systems too.
> > 
> > I'm also not inclined to install a newer version of Raspbian right
> > now
> > either, especially because security updates are still available.
> > Instead I'm now compiling TeX Live on Raspbian GNU/Linux 10
> > (buster).
> > 
> > This takes a lot of time because Raspberries are much slower than
> > my
> > main machine and because I currently use only one of the four CPUs.
> > When I instruct Make to use all CPUs the system runs out of memory
> > and
> > crashes when it tries to compile four programs at the same time.
> > 
> > When I succeed I'll put the binaries on my web server and let you
> > know.
> > 
> > Regards,
> >   Reinhard
> > 
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