On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Chris Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> David Bremner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Hi Camm; >> > >> > I remember mail is a bit "in-transition" for you. Did you see >> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500997 >> > >> > It looks like it is sparc specific. I tossed around the idea of a >> > transient failure on IRC, but it looks like it fails in the same place >> > on two different buildd machines, so I guess not. >> >> This issue is still outstanding - does anyone care enough to fix it >> for lenny? > > I've just tried to build axiom on sparc on a lenny system- and get > exactly the same build error. It builds fine on an i386 system. > > > I tried to look for an updated upstream version as the package source > is from 2005, but http://www.axiom-developer.org/ isn't working for me > at the moment. Wikipedia [1] says axiom was forked into OpenAxiom and > FriCAS in 2007. > > So is axiom maintained upstream, or should the Debian package be > replaced by one or both of OpenAxiom or FriCAS - and is there a comparison > between the two?
Most people seem to be using FriCAS. I agree it's not worthy to fix the old axiom in Debian, but rather either package the new axiom, or fricas. Ondrej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
