On Friday 18,February,2011 08:02 PM, Roland Plüss wrote: > Am 16.02.2011 18:33, schrieb Chow Loong Jin: >> On Wednesday 16,February,2011 07:00 PM, Roland Plüss wrote: >>> Since nearly over a year now the gnu-smalltalk is broken on Ubuntu (since >>> maverick to be precise) on my amd64 developer machine. Since this time I >>> have >>> now to dual-boot with a GenToo to develop with GST since Ubuntu only has the >>> i368 version but not the amd64 version. >>> >>> Why exactly is there no amd64 version since over a year whereas GenToo has >>> an >>> amd64 version and it works splendid? Is it because of this one test case >>> which >>> fails in the build logs? >>> >>>> 111: DBD-MySQL skipped >>>> (testsuite.at:149) >>>> 116: GDBM FAILED >>>> (testsuite.at:154) >>>> >>>> ERROR: 125 tests were run, >>>> 1 failed unexpectedly. >>>> 1 test was skipped. >>> A skipped test is nothing special and GDBM failing the test by itself also >>> nothing special (it's under "other package"). Is it not possible to do >>> something >>> about this? It's quite a nuisance to dual-boot just because an amd64 >>> version is >>> refused to be done. >>> >>> (if you answer on this mail, please also CC rol...@rptd.ch as I can't >>> register >>> on this mailing list for some reason) >>> >> Sorry about that. It's not that the amd64 version is refused to be done, but >> more like nobody who used the package stepped forward to fix it (just a >> no-change re-upload, since the tests all pass now anyway). >> >> There's a bug on this[1], and I've just uploaded an unchanged package to the >> maverick-proposed queue. Please subscribe yourself to that bug, and when the >> package gets approved for the -proposed queue (and subsequently get copied >> into >> natty), please verify that it works fine on Maverick so that users may get it >> via maverick-updates. >> >> Thanks for the notifying us about this. >> >> >> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnu-smalltalk/+bug/712296 >> > I would do so but unfortunately my launchpad account there is broken. I can't > log in anymore and it seems not fixable so can't help with anything involving > launchpad. Besides I'm afraid you would have to guide me there with this > proposed queue and testing stuff. I'm used to create and work with ebuilds but > with Ubuntu I have no clue.
Follow the instructions here, and install gnu-smalltalk from maverick-proposed (if you're using Maverick) or from lucid-proposed (if you're using Lucid). If you're using Natty, just do nothing and wait. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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