On Friday 18,February,2011 08:38 PM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > 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 >
Oh, looks like I only uploaded to maverick-proposed -- it built fine on Lucid the first time round. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin
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