Re: [gentoo-lisp] common lisps overlay -> tree; maxima, fricas

On Sun, 21 Apr 2013, Stelian Ionescu wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-04-21 at 09:49 +0700, A.G.Grozin@×××××××.su wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Apr 2013, Stelian Ionescu wrote:
>>> clozurecl-1.9-r3 is not a live ebuild, what makes you think that ?
>> src_prepare() {
>>          svn upgrade >/dev/null || die
>>          cp /usr/share/common-lisp/source/asdf/build/asdf.lisp tools/ || die
>> }
>> This is not acceptable in the main tree.
> Why not ?
>
>>> Please don't put snapshots in portage unless really necessary, and this
>>> is not the case since upstream makes regular releases.
>> So why 1.9-r3 gave something unpredictable which varies with time?
> What varies ?
The result of
     svn upgrade
of course! It upgrades the source directory to the current 
(time-dependent) state of the upstream svn. So, this is a live ebuild. 
Also, it requires an internet connection at the emerge time.

>>> What are you unsure about ?
>> How to test if asdf works or not?
> It has a test suite, but it needs a working implementation first.
I suppose dev-lisp/asdf (which I ported from the overlay not to use 
common-lisp-3) provides one. I'll have a look how to run the test suite.

Andrey