[tlbuild] Problems with building texlive/context from its sources

[Dr. Werner Fink]

On 2023/04/06 23:22:12 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 02:57:49PM +0000, Jakob Jakobson wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Hi Jakob,
> 
> the discussions ended up on the tex-live list rather than tlbuild,
> archives at https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/ - check March and
> April.
> 
> If you want luametatex there are various comments on it, and where
> to get it, also comments about how/where to install it.  I've
> noticed that fedora's current specfile works around luametatex by
> using some symlinks and shell scripts (i.e. it supports MKIV), and
> for BLFS in the end I've taken a similar approach (no desire to add
> yet another package to our book).
> 
> And yes, the build from source can be confusing - some distros
> appear to just package the binaries.

Here for openSUSE I've ConTeXt configured to use both the system
wide cache as well as the user cache for mkiv as well as lmtx.
Means formats and tree/fonts below system cache.  And as long as
the user does not overwrite the texmfcnf.lua with his/her environment
he/she uses the system formats.

Werner

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