Compiling TeX Live on 10.5 (was: libatomic build failure 10.5/x86)

[Ken Cunningham]

> On Apr 26, 2018, at 04:19, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 26 April 2018 at 13:12, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
>>> On 2018-04-26 07:33:30 +0200 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>> 
>>> Riccardo, can you please try:
>>>    sudo port -v build luajit configure.compiler=macports-gcc-6
>>> or
>>>    sudo port -v build luajit configure.compiler=macports-gcc-7
>>> 
>>> It should potentially lead to the same issue (it doesn't fail for me
>>> on the latest 64-bit os though). It would be nice to isolate the
>>> problem and report it to GCC developers.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I tried both gcc 6 and ggc 7, it was very quick and succeeded without
>> errors.
> 
> Then it must be some other flag. Maybe a different version of lua or whatever.
> 
>> The issue is thus of the "embedded" luajit?
>> 
>> I wonder why --disable-luajittex was not effective
> 
> It could be for two reasons:
> - maybe --disable-mfluajit is also needed (you need to check the exact
> name, I'm not 100% sure if I spelled it correctly)
> - it could be that the configure option was not applied correctly
> 
> I suspect the first one, since mfluajit is relatively new and luajit
> build has at some point automatically been disabled on powerpc, so
> nobody actually noticed that the configure argument was not effective.
> 
> Mojca

If you use the_silver_searcher on texlive-bin you will see a flag in autotools build scripts called need_luajit . It looks like many different tools call for it, and you'd have to disable a lot to get past needing it.