No context in TL2023 source ?

Ken Moffat zarniwhoop at ntlworld.com
Mon Mar 20 23:04:50 CET 2023


On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 09:52:21PM +0000, Ken Moffat via tex-live wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 03:16:28PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> > Hi Ken,
> > 
> >     Looking at what I've now installed from a source build of TL2023 I
> >     see that I lack a context program.
> > 
> > Indeed, luametatex is not included in the TL source tree.
> > You have to build it from its own sources (it uses cmake):
> > https://github.com/contextgarden/luametatex/
> > 
> > Those sources are also included in the TL release in
> > source/luametatex-230310.tar.xz but afaik there is no reason not to
> > build the latest sources from development.
> > 

Unfortunately, I'm looking at texlive-20230313-source, so no tarballs
in that.

> > Also, "context" and "mtxrun" are symlinks to luametatex. The regular TL
> > build does not create those either.
> > 
> > $ pwd
> > /usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux
> > $ ls -l |fgrep luam
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 karl root       10 Feb 26 16:01 context -> luametatex
> > -r-xr-xr-x 1 karl root  3102544 Mar 11 21:39 luametatex
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 karl root       10 Feb 26 16:01 mtxrun -> luametatex
> > 
> > Or, forget about including ConTeXt in your TL, and treat it as an
> > entirely separate package that is installed from the upstream ConTeXt
> > site. https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installation
> > 

No releases, no tags - so whatever I pull will be a random snapshot.

ĸen
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