Re: FTFBS in sarge
> Robin <robin@debian.org> writes:
>> The clisp package at some point built the FFI module for mips, which let
>> my mcvs package be built and propagated into testing. Then the clisp
>> maintainer turned off building the FFI module for certain architectures
>> (including mips), making it impossible for mcvs to build successfully for
>> those architectures from that point on. I agree with you that the *clisp*
>> package w/o FFI on some architectures shouldn't have made it into testing
>> but it did, and that's how things stand now.
Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Have you considered dropping just the clisp needing parts for not
> fully supported archs? On i386 I don't see a Depends: clisp in mcvs so
> it seems to be usefull without it at first glance. Maybe that would
> solve the problem.
Oh, no. Meta-CVS is _written in_ Common Lisp! Debian mcvs package
contains both Lisp runtime and Lisp image.
No, it cannot depend on clisp package, unless the build is changed to
compile FFI part dynamically. I don't believe dynamic FFI will work
where static FFI fails.
Seo Sanghyeon
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