texlua issue on raspberry pi

[Henri Menke]

On Fri, 2022-04-15 at 22:56 +0200, Reinhard Kotucha 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.

Yes and no. It's not desirable if you are on an older version of
Raspbian, but newer versions of the Raspberry Pi hardware cannot be
targeted by the old GCC, so either you end up with binaries that do not
run on old Raspbian or ones that do not run on newer boards. Pick your
poison.

Cheers, Henri

> 
> 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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