Re: FTFBS in sarge
Seo Sanghyeon <tinuviel@sparcs.kaist.ac.kr> writes:
>> 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
Does that mean every clisp program in Debian has a copy of the clisp
runtime in it?
MfG
Goswin
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