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From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@×××××××.net>
To: Stelian Ionescu <sionescu@×××××××××××.net>
Cc: gentoo-lisp@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-lisp] Last Rites: dev-lisp/gcl-cvs
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 02:33:21
Message-Id: 4706F1BA.4060307@cesmail.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-lisp] Last Rites: dev-lisp/gcl-cvs by Stelian Ionescu
1 Stelian Ionescu wrote:
2 > I'm not surprised, given how broken a compiler GCL is even on i386
3
4 last rites is sounding better every day. :)
5 > CMUCL is slowly, but actively, maintained
6 >
7 >> ? It's still masked on AMD64, right?
8 >
9 > IIRC, CMUCL's AMD64 port was abandoned 3 years ago because the company
10 > that financed it switched to sbcl. I think it should work on a mixed
11 > 32/64 bit profile but I haven't got any such machine; perhaps you'd like
12 > to try to compile that and patch cmucl-19d_pre1-r1.ebuild accordingly ?
13
14 Well ... as long as SBCL does everything I need (Common Music and
15 Maxima) I don't really need CMUCL. Now I'd really like to have only
16 *one* Lisp, so whichever fork of Axiom comes up with a solid SBCL build
17 first gets my vote. :)
18
19 Seriously, though, we probably should think about OpenAxiom or FriCAS at
20 least in the "science" overlay.
21
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Re: [gentoo-lisp] Last Rites: dev-lisp/gcl-cvs "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o>