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From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@×××××××.net>
To: "Andrey G. Grozin" <A.G.Grozin@×××××××.su>
Cc: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] maxima-5.14.0 and related stuff
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:43:39
Message-Id: 478B66EC.9090609@cesmail.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] maxima-5.14.0 and related stuff by "Andrey G. Grozin"
1 Andrey G. Grozin wrote:
2 > I can build and test stuff only on x86. wxmaxima-0.7.4 is rather
3 > experimental - it now uses wxGTK-2.8, not 2.6. Therefore, I feeled I can
4 > only write ~x86. But now I included ~amd64 for convenience of those who
5 > would like to try it on amd64 (and tell me the result).
6 >
7 > Good news: there is an overlay
8 > http://repo.or.cz/w/gentoo-lisp-overlay.git which contains gcl-2.6.7-r6
9 > ebuild. This ebuild produces a working gcl, and I can build maxima with
10 > it. Now waiting when a broken ebuild in the tree will be replaced by
11 > this working one.
12 >
13 > (By the way, gcl is the only common lisp which builds and works on all
14 > Debian architectures, there are 14 or something about that of them.)
15 >
16 > Andrey
17 >
18
19 Ah ... OK ... I'll test it tonight. On a related note (I forget the bug
20 number) I built Axiom Silver November 2007 from the upstream tarball
21 yesterday. It builds its own gcl, and the version of gcl 2.6.8 that it
22 uses doesn't work on AMD64. 2.6.7 does work.
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