Re: Bug#809053: xindy FTBFS due to CPPFLAGS containing spaces
2016-01-04 0:43 GMT+01:00 Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>:
> Hi Agustin,
>
>> For the records, this summer (30/7/15) I also mailed Joerg about
>> current xindy status, but got no reply. My message might have been
>> unnoticed and I have been rather busy lately, so I did not retry.
>
> I did contact mia@debian.org for a take over of the xindy package.
> We can put it into collab-maint or into debian-tex, I don't mind
> any of it.
Hi, Norbert, do as you prefer.
By the way, when I prepared my two NMU I used a local git repo with
some local commits. May be those commits can be of interest to
preserve the history.
>> I also reminded him about xindy still using dpatch and about the
>> existence of newer upstream versions (up to 2.5.1).
>
> I first wanted to fix the current problems, then I will upgrade
> to last version.
FIne, I got newer versions from
http://mirrors.ctan.org/indexing/xindy/base/, sf seems outdated. I
first made the dpath->quilt migration and then upgraded first to 2.5.0
and then to 2.5.1. This is an extra work, but I wanted to preserve
versions history. Later noticed some extra commits in texlive svn
repo, but did not track them closely.
Newer xindy versions made some changes in build system. I have to find
my old git repo and make it available somewhere, at least to save some
extra work.
> Have you investigated whether using sbcl instead of clisp would work?
> clisp is dead, and sbcl is much more reliable and portable.
No. Just googled a bit and just found a message in the xindy-dev list
commenting that it might require some work, but without reply from
Joachim Schrod. Someone fluent with clisp and sbcl might however find
it easier. I vaguely remember something about xindy needing ffi, but I
think recent sbcl has it.
> For those who are interested, here are preliminary packages
> of xindy 2.5.1 from TeX Live sources 20150104 (today):
>
> deb http://www.preining.info/debian/ xindy main
> deb-src http://www.preining.info/debian/ xindy main
>
> (amd64)
>
> If someone can give it some tests that would be great.
Nice, will try to look at it once I find some time.
Regards,
--
Agustin
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