Re: Axiom FTBFS on sparc
David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> writes:
> At 11 Nov 2008 12:40:02 +0000,
> Chris Walker wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Unfortunately I suspect that to track this down needs someone with a
> good understanding of GCL and access to a sparc.
A friend of mine has offered access to a sparc for this sort of thing
in the past. Anyone with a good understanding of GCL feel this is
important to them?
>
> [ forking discussion snipped ]
>
> > 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?
>
> I don't know about what among the three is the best option, but it looks like axiom continues to
> release as well:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.axiom.devel/19751
>
> Sorry if this is obvious, but I doubt very much that the release
> managers will allow a new upstream release or fork into Lenny at this
> point.
>
I did know - but it does bear repeating. Partly I was wondering if it
was worth spending time on an old version of the package, and partly I
was hoping that the bug fix might be easy to port from the most recent
version of axiom.
The question now is should we spend the effort trying to fix the bug and
get the package into lenny, or should we ask the release team to
remove the package from lenny and try to do better next time?
Chris
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