Re: Axiom FTBFS on sparc
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Chris Walker
<chrisw@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Chris Walker <chrisw@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
>
>> David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> writes:
>>
>> > Hi Camm;
>> >
>> > I remember mail is a bit "in-transition" for you. Did you see
>> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500997
>> >
>> > It looks like it is sparc specific. I tossed around the idea of a
>> > transient failure on IRC, but it looks like it fails in the same place
>> > on two different buildd machines, so I guess not.
>>
>> This issue is still outstanding - does anyone care enough to fix it
>> for lenny?
>
> I've just tried to build axiom on sparc on a lenny system- and get
> exactly the same build error. It builds fine on an i386 system.
>
>
> I tried to look for an updated upstream version as the package source
> is from 2005, but http://www.axiom-developer.org/ isn't working for me
> at the moment. Wikipedia [1] says axiom was forked into OpenAxiom and
> FriCAS in 2007.
>
> So is axiom maintained upstream, or should the Debian package be
> replaced by one or both of OpenAxiom or FriCAS - and is there a comparison
> between the two?
Most people seem to be using FriCAS. I agree it's not worthy to fix
the old axiom in Debian, but rather either package the new axiom, or
fricas.
Ondrej
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