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From: leahneukirchen <leahneukirchen@users.noreply.github.com>
To: ml@inbox.vuxu.org
Subject: Re: [PR PATCH] [Merged]: maxima: add a subpkg maxima-ecl needed for sagemath
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 14:19:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211221131959.-ECnoVnicqb-z3XxByA4VQukWa9XPj_phk7BVC-V3UQ@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gh-mailinglist-notifications-41a7ca26-5023-4802-975b-f1789d68868e-void-packages-34273@inbox.vuxu.org>

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There's a merged pull request on the void-packages repository

maxima: add a subpkg maxima-ecl needed for sagemath
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/34273

Description:
 - Added a build option 'ecl' (enabled by default)
 - The ecl binary and library will be in a subpkg maxima-ecl so this
   should not affect current users of maxima
 - new patches:
   - a0d7a43...: build a FASL library for ECL (this is merged upstream)
   - handle-multiple-ldflags.patch: otherwise compilation with multiple options in LDFLAGS fails (taken from debian)
   - matrixexp.patch: fixes an error in matrix exponentiation (taken from debian, this originates in sagemath)

A weak point is that the library maxima.fas is installed in
/usr/lib/ecl-${ecl_version} which is where ecl looks for them, but this
doesn't seem right.

Maybe an alternative would be to have the ecl package ship a symlink at
/usr/lib/ecl pointing to the versioned directory, then have the
maxima-ecl package place its library in the non-versioned directory.

#### Testing the changes
- I tested the changes in this PR: **briefly**

To compile sagemath using system maxima, two things are necessary:
 - the maxima-ecl package that this PR introduces
 - the (yet unmerged) changes for sagemath in https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/32867
Using both I compiled and doctested sagemath, and it seems to be working ok.

#### RFC
My doubts are:
- where to place the library `maxima.fas` as discussed above
- whether to have a build_option for ecl or just hardcode it as enabled
- whether to split the `maxima-ecl` package or place the two files it contains in the package `maxima` itself

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-21 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-27 23:25 [PR PATCH] [RFC] " tornaria
2021-11-28 12:51 ` tornaria
2021-11-28 13:01 ` tornaria
2021-11-28 20:28 ` dkwo
2021-12-01 21:24 ` knusbaum
2021-12-01 23:02 ` tornaria
2021-12-11 18:38 ` [PR PATCH] [Updated] " tornaria
2021-12-11 18:56 ` tornaria
2021-12-13 13:09 ` tornaria
2021-12-21 13:08 ` tornaria
2021-12-21 13:19 ` leahneukirchen [this message]

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