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From: Francois Bissey <fbissey@××××××××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] Sage, ecls, maxima
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:02:39
Message-Id: 50776DD4.20708@slingshot.co.nz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] Sage, ecls, maxima by Thomas Kahle
1 On 12/10/12 12:21, Thomas Kahle wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > On 21:42 Thu 11 Oct 2012, Francois Bissey wrote:
5 >> I don't experience this problem at all. ecls-12.2.7 cause some other
6 >> problems with some tests. You are the first person to report this kind
7 >> of problems. Could you provide more info, such use flags for ecls and
8 >> maxima. Bigger chunk of the maxima compile failure. gcc used...
9 >
10 > Here's what I do to reproduce:
11 >
12 > I'm on a mostly stable amd64 system, but with gcc-4.6.3 (see
13 > emerge.info)
14 >
15 > 1) emerge =dev-lisp/ecls-12.2.1 with USE="X emacs threads unicode" -> Works
16 > 2) emerge =sci-mathematics/maxima-5.26.0 with USE="X ecls emacs latex nls tk unicode"
17 > -> fails with attached build.log
18 >
19 > Let me just assume without trying that it works with USE="-ecls", but
20 > that's not relevant for me as I want sage which has
21 > =sci-mathematics/maxima-5.26.0[ecls] as a dep.
22 >
23 > 3) emerge =dev-lisp/ecls-12.7.1 with USE="X emacs threads unicode" -> Works
24 > 4) emerge =sci-mathematics/maxima-5.26.0 with USE="X ecls emacs latex nls tk unicode" -> Works
25 > 5) emerge =sage-5.3 -> Works
26 >
27 > I conclude that my original problem with sage not working was due to
28 > some upgrade breaking either maxima or ecls (but not picked up by
29 > revdep-rebuild!). When trying to rebuild I ran into the build failures
30 > described above, but the combination of ecls-12.7.1 and maxima-5.26.0
31 > builds and works with sage so far.
32 >
33
34 OK ecls is fine sbcl isn't. I would like you to try without unicode for
35 both ecls and maxima. ecls with unicode can cause trouble in sage we
36 thought we had a solution with Paulo (formerly from Mandriva) but it
37 is not fool-proof.
38
39 Francois

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Re: [gentoo-science] Sage, ecls, maxima Thomas Kahle <tomka@g.o>