> Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The clisp package at some point built the FFI module for mips, which let >> my mcvs package be built and propagated into testing. Then the clisp >> maintainer turned off building the FFI module for certain architectures >> (including mips), making it impossible for mcvs to build successfully for >> those architectures from that point on. I agree with you that the *clisp* >> package w/o FFI on some architectures shouldn't have made it into testing >> but it did, and that's how things stand now.
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Have you considered dropping just the clisp needing parts for not > fully supported archs? On i386 I don't see a Depends: clisp in mcvs so > it seems to be usefull without it at first glance. Maybe that would > solve the problem. Oh, no. Meta-CVS is _written in_ Common Lisp! Debian mcvs package contains both Lisp runtime and Lisp image. No, it cannot depend on clisp package, unless the build is changed to compile FFI part dynamically. I don't believe dynamic FFI will work where static FFI fails. Seo Sanghyeon
