> Hi all, > > I consider my tries of reviving sci-mathematics/axiom as failed. The > current version in the tree does not compile per > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326575 . I tried to bump the > package, but as we found in > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336789 the internal copy of gnu > common lisp that axiom tries to build (gcl is dead-upstream hard masked > in the tree) requires <dev-libs/gmp-5, otherwise it will try to build an > internal copy of gmp-4 which will fail, and is unacceptable. I don't > know if it is worth the effort to try to beat it to work with the > system's gmp. This would probably end up in reviving gcl ourselves. > > What is a proper course of action here? Should we last-rite it or at > least package.mask it to see what upstream does about their dead lisp > compiler ? > Hi Thomas,
Have you tried to contact upstream (Tim Daly) to see if being packaged in a distro is something they are interested in. I personally would last rite it and possibly revisit the situation every so often. If it doesn't even build I am not sure there is a point in keeping it in the tree. Francois
