[tex-live] mips64el architecture for TL

[Paul Roge]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:40:51 -0600
Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 16:55, Karl Berry wrote:
> >    I would like to install texlive2011 for the mips64el
> > architecture. I have read the thread
> >    http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2011-August/029993.html.
> > Apparently, this architecture is still unsupported by tlmgr. Is
> > that correct?
> >
> > That is correct, and it won't change at this late date.
> >
> >    Any advice for doing the installation?
> >
> > I don't seem to have any url for the binaries.  Mojca, can you
> > please send?  Sorry if I missed it.  Then I can at least link to it
> > from the bugs page.
> 
> I can send the files, but please keep in mind that I only have
> "mipsel" files, no "mips64el".
> 
> If you are using debian, can you please check that dpkg-architecture
> returns you mipsel and not mips64el? Else my binaries won't even help
> you.
> 
> (Binaries were compiled on Kip Warner's laptop.)
> 
> Mojca

Hello Mojca,

Yes, "dpkg-architecture returns "mipsel", not "mips64el" so you binaries would help. I  wrote mips64el because 

% rsync -av --delete --exclude=.svn tug.org::tldevsrc/Build/source/ ./
% ./Build

created a directory called ./inst/bin/mips64el-unknown-linux-gnu/

It tried defining this directory in my .profile file, but it doesn't seem to work for me. What am I doing wrong? Either the binaries for mipsel or help to get binaries built from source would be greatly appreciated!

- Paul