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Andrey G. Grozin wrote: |
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> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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>> On a related note, the Axiom ebuild in Portage is a tad old, I think. |
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>> Axiom now has two repositories, a "silver" and a "gold" branch. Both |
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>> of them have more recent source that what's in Portage. I'd recommend |
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>> at least getting a "gold" ebuild into Portage, probably replacing the |
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>> one that's in there now. |
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> Axiom in portage is hopelessly out of date. I was going to do |
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> something about it for quite some time. But the current situation |
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> concerning Axiom is rather unclear. There are more than two branches, |
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> several version control systems are used, etc. I was hoping that the |
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> build-improvements branch will become stable (in it, the build |
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> machinery is much simpler and more standard), and then I'll write a |
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> ebuild. But it has not happened yet. |
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> Andrey |
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Yeah ... I can get back on the Axiom lists and see what's happening. The |
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"gold" version seems to build fine on my Gentoo systems, but I've had |
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occasional problems with "silver" -- it gets to a certain point late in |
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the documentation stage and sits there waiting for a couple of carriage |
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returns from the keyboard. :( |
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P) |
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http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/ |
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