texlua issue on raspberry pi

[Bob Tennent]

> 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?

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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