Re: FTFBS in sarge
On Wednesday 08 Sep 2004 01:09, Robin wrote:
> I actually did try to fix the bug in clisp but I didn't succeed at it
> because I didn't know enough about MIPS assembly in order to follow
> through on it. My requests on the debian-mips mailing lists all went
> unanswered[1].
It is on my todo list to fix this. I have an Indy that is currently refusing
to install sarge (disk broken I suspect), but I will try and get to it as
soon as I can.
> Just in case you didn't get it, the problem is not even in *my* package.
>
> 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.
clisp without mips FFI is IMO better than a clisp 5 years old, which was the
alternative, unfortunately the fixes to this aren't very simple and the
upstream do not have mips hardware.
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