[tex-live] tlive on arm ??

[Thanh Han The]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 04:45:54AM -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
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> [...]
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> The biggest hitch - it seems that there are not TLive 2008 binaries for
> Linux ARM. However, it looks like Debian has them, so I could probably
> steal their binaries and just make sure I have the necessary shared
> libraries.
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> Does this sound absolutely crazy and way too far fetched of a thing to
> try? Has anyone else done something like this?

I have built pdftex from sources on linux arm (running in
qemu) and it works fine. I have tested it on fairly complex
test files. Not sure about the other binaries, since I was
testing pdftex only.

Thanh