Hi Francois and everyone, > 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.
I'm in contact with Tim Daly now, who seems very interested in getting axiom to work on Gentoo. The main problem that I see here, and also with the developers of Macaulay 2, is that upstream often does not feel any urge to unsplit their build systems. They just build internal copies of whatever they need. So here with axiom it is that the already internal gcl builds an internal gmp and upstream would like it better to apply our gentoo patches to that internal gmp instead of making it work with system wide gmp. I find it hard to communicate that internal copies are evil(TM). How do you guys handle that ? Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle
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