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Re: Can we add debathena-thirdparty as a dependency of
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Kaduk)
Sat Mar 21 19:49:03 2009
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:47:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
cc: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU, debathena@MIT.EDU
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On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
> Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
>> mit-scheme remains uninstallable, but should be fixed Real Soon Now,
>> per https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341832 , and at that point we can
>> make the package a dependency instead of a recommendation.
>
> No, we can't. mit-scheme is only available for i386.
>
I seem to have missed a bunch of the thread, but I think
I did manage to compile mit-scheme for amd64 from the
generated C source at some point. I don't think it's possible
for that to become self-hosting, though.
I don't think this is something we want to be in the
business of doing, though.
(Of course, this was on FreeBSD and not linux, so
there may have been some 32-bit compatability
libraries involved; I wasn't paying attention to
that at the time.)
-Ben
