texlua issue on raspberry pi

[Johannes Hielscher]

Am Fri, 15 Apr 2022 22:07:29 +0200
schrieb Henri Menke via tex-live <tex-live at tug.org>:

> On Fri, 2022-04-15 at 15:52 -0400, Bob Tennent wrote:
> > > Check the following instead:  
> > * lsb_release -a
> > 
> > No LSB modules are available.
> > Distributor ID: Raspbian
> > Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
> > Release: 10
> > Codename: buster
> > 
> > * cat /etc/os-release
> > 
> > PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"
> > NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
> > VERSION_ID="10"
> > VERSION="10 (buster)"
> > VERSION_CODENAME=buster
> > ID=raspbian
> > ID_LIKE=debian
> > HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
> > SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
> > BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"
> > 
> > * dpkg -l libc6
> > 
> > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold  
> > >   
> > Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-
> > aWait/Trig-pend  
> > > / Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)  
> > > > / Name           Version           Architecture Description  
> > +++-==============-=================-============-
> > =================================
> > ii  libc6:armhf    2.28-10+rpt2+rpi1 armhf        GNU C Library:
> > Shared libraries
> >   
> > > 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.  
> 
> You have a couple of options:
> - Upgrade Raspbian to 11
> - Downgrade TeX Live to 2021
> - Recompile the TeX Live binaries on Raspbian 10
> - Ask Johannes Hieschler to compile the binaries in TeX Live 2023 on
> Raspbian 10 again and wait for TeX Live 2023

Bob is apparently running the 32 bit flavour of RPiOS (armhf), for
which Simon Dales is the one who has provided the TL binaries.

I've contributed the aarch64-linux binaries (arm64 in Debian speak),
compiled on Armbian Buster against glibc 2.28 .

Hence, we could add the following hypothetical (slow, labour-intensive
and potentially destructive) option to Henri's list:
- Upgrade/reinstall Raspbian/RPiOS to the 64 bit version (I don't know
  if this is a viable upgrade path, or it'd be better to start from
  scratch here; in that case you'd go with Debian 11 as a basis anyway).

Should you aim on compiling the binaries for yourself, I might still
help you out, though (-:

Best,
Johannes