4.2 Packages are Up

On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:32:41 -0600, Nutso OpenBSD User Dave wrote:
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> Many Thanks to the OpenBSD Developers for the new 4.2 package
> collection! I notice that clisp is still not available for amd64.
> Dos this mean that clisp (and hence maxima) is no longer going to
> be usable on the OpenBSD amd64 platform?[/color]

Dave,

I've never used clisp, nor do I have any interest in it. I'm just writing
to point out that you could do your own research, and come to a reasoned
conclusion. I think it would be significantly more helpful than posting
such a general question to usenet, which few developers track.

If you look at the cvs log for the Makefile, you can see that there have
been any number of architectural issues and restrictions -- revision 1.18
was where it was set to "ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386".

Since usenet is not the forum to reach many developers, you should
really do your own research: I recommend reading the Makefile's history,
it is a history of the port. You could also search the ports@ archive
for discussions of clisp, and you could contact all who were involved at
any point in time with committing updates, should you have
specific questions: merdely@, naddy@, brad@, pvalchev@, et. al.

You could also take the opportunity to test the port yourself on your
architecture of interest. It takes little effort to comment out that line
in the Makefile and give it a try.

Start here, Dave:

[url]http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/lang/clisp/Makefile[/url]

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