The TeX Live distribution does not provide biber for MUSL based Linux distrossuch as Alpine.

This project provides the means to build and test biber under Alpine Linux from thesource. Run

to build the image. This takes some time, as all the perl dependencies aredownloaded and installed. Then run

to build the biber binary. Mounting the$PWD as/opt makes thedirectory visible in which the build process installs the packed binary.

To test the build the binary should be run in an environment that does notcontain the build infrastructure, such as Perl and all the requiredlibraries. This project also provides a test environment. Run

to build the image for the test environment. Then run

to run simple tests to validate the build. Again, the current directory is mountedinto the container to access the binary which as been produced in the previoussteps.

• Passing-e branch=<branchname> causes the branch<branchname> to bebuilt. If the parameter is omitted,branch will default todev:

  docker run -v $PWD:/usr/local/bin -e branch=krumeich/musl krumeich/biber-alpine

• Passing-e repo=<reponame> causes the repository<reponame> to bebuilt. If the parameter is omitted,repo will default toplk/biber:

  docker run -v $PWD:/usr/local/bin -e repo=krumeich/biber krumeich/biber-alpine

Of course you can combine both variants to build an arbitrary branch from anarbitrary biber fork.

• Alternatively, if you havemake installed, usemake image to create theimage, then usemake biber to build biber. To pass a particular branch name,set the environment variablesBRANCH and/orREPO on the same command line:

  BRANCH=krumeich/musl REPO=krumeich/biber make biber

• Consequently, runmake test to build the test environment and run the validation.

• If you are completely lazy, then just runmake all to build all images, thebiber binary and run the test in one go.