Re: state of the numerix package
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 11:11:09PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote:
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> FWIW, the RC bugs on numerix have to do with platforms on which it doesn't
> build. I'm not sure why they're considered RC; my understanding was that
> FTBFS is only RC if it formerly built on that platform.
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> I've long since dealt with reworking the Makefiles to handle the case where
> the ocaml byte compiler doesn't exist. But in the interim, ocaml-nums and/or
> the handling of library search paths in ocamlmklib seems to have regressed,
> and my build is failing:
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> ocamlmklib -o numerix -oc mlnumx lib/ocaml/numerix.cmo lib/ocaml/numcount.cmo
> lib/ocaml/numcmp.cmo lib/common/chrono.o lib/common/ml-long_int-c.o
> lib/common/ml-long_int-d.o lib/common/ml-gmp_int.o .libobj/*.o -lgmp -lnums
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lnums
Do you have ocaml-nums installed ?
Can you check your changes in subversion, so i can have a look tomorrow ?
> I'm making a more serious effort at debugging this as we speak, starting with
> getting caught up on several weeks' worth of evolution of sid. Sorry I've
> been kind of out of touch; the new day job (I'm seven weeks in) has really
> eaten me for lunch. As of today I have finally wrapped a lasso around the
> responsibilities of the position; it's an alarmingly long list. Happily, a
> large fraction of it has to do with contributing to Debian, beginning with
> getting the SKS keyserver and its dependencies (e. g., numerix) stabilized.
> Watch this space.
Cool,
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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