[tlbuild] Problems with building texlive/context from its sources
Jakob Jakobson
jakob.jakobson13 at posteo.de
Thu Apr 6 16:57:49 CEST 2023
Dear developers,
I am/become one of the texlive mantainers for its flatpak package, a
more or less recent and new approach for establishing a linux packaging
format. The flatpak packages are usually build from source and so is the
texlive package. You can find it under
https://github.com/flathub/org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.texlive/tree/branch/22.08
. The file
https://github.com/flathub/org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.texlive/blob/branch/22.08/org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.texlive.yml
is the build manifest which lists the files and commands/additional
steps needed for the build process.
The current build of texlive works well with pdflatex/lualatex/xelatex
but with the context part I have some problems. Therefore, I would
appreciate any help with the following questions:
1) Is context included in the texlive-20230313* tarballs or do I have to
download it in an extra step?
2) If context is included in the texlive-20230313* tarballs, do I have
to additionally download luametatex or is luametatex a part of context?
3) If luametatex is via context in the texlive-20230313* tarballs, how
do I build it?
Sorry for those (perhaps obvious) questions but I have to admit that I
find the texlive building process quite confusing. Also, I could not
find any installation guide that covers the scenario of building context
within a texlive 2023 installation from its sources on linux.
Thanks in advance and regards
Jakob
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