Hello,
after updating my ports tree, I've found out that math/open-axiom
has been deleted! After math/fricas unusable with sbcl-1.3.x for
many months and now gone too, I'm left with NO alternatives for
that kind of software here.
Fortunately, I still have a working package of open-axiom on my machine,
running with SBCL 1.3.1 right now:
$ pkg version -v | grep open-axiom
open-axiom-1.4.2_3 ? orphaned: math/open-axiom
$ uname -a
FreeBSD phenom.fritz.box 10.3-STABLE FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE #0 r303311: Mon Jul 25
20:42:34 CEST 2016 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
$ open-axiom
OpenAxiom: The Open Scientific Computation Platform
Version: OpenAxiom 1.4.2
Built on Friday June 19, 2015 at 22:28:27
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Issue )copyright to view copyright notices.
Issue )summary for a summary of useful system commands.
Issue )quit to leave OpenAxiom and return to shell.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) -> )quit
$ sbcl
This is SBCL 1.3.1, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.
SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
* (sb-ext:exit)
Do you recommend to switch to Debian GNU/Linux, where those packages
are still actively maintained, or is there a chance in hell to see
those ports reappear in the near future on FreeBSD?
Thanks,
-cpghost.
Hello, sorry for the late reply.
How did you manage to build math/open-axiom? I tried building it again,
and I am still getting the errors. You must have at least by-passed the
BROKEN within the port.
I actually didn't build it now. It was built a while ago (from ports),
and I was just lucky to still have it on that machine. Let me see how
old it is...:
$ ls -l `which open-axiom`
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1019720 Jun 19 2015 /usr/local/bin/open-axiom
Okay, granted, that's *ancient*, already! ;-)
At minimum ;) Maybe its already antique ;)
That's why I was surprised that the port disappeared, since I didn't even
notice that it was marked BROKEN. I just kept using the installed program.
I'm surprised it slipped through the upgrade cycle without me noticing,
because last time I upgraded ports on that machine before yesterday was:
$ zfs list -t snap | grep ports
<...snip...>
zroot/usr/ports@2016-05-13-r414969 1.32G - 22.0G -
... and, let me see... yes, it was marked BROKEN there. Okay, I'll have
a look then, but I doubt I have the skills to fix that problem.
At least the error messages are very helpful. It even provides a link to
the manual with hints how to solve.
But to be fair there are only 2 choices:
1) revise the port and wrote numerous patches to be buildable again
2) get upstream to fix them
Also, regarding your last comment, I must admit that I also find myself
moving to Linux. For certain tasks it works better than FreeBSD,
probably because it has a much larger base of volunteers, and also
because most people who write open source do it on Linux.
Indeed. I didn't meant to sound harsh. Sorry if it came across as such.
I was running low on coffee and high on frustration. A lot of good ports
just vanished in the last couple of years.
Were they still supported? Is there any need?
I really prefer FreeBSD for many, many reasons; but sometimes, you need
to get some work done, and done pretty fast, and there's not much time
to go hunting for the reason why a program won't compile, while on Linux,
a './configure && make && make install' would usually suffice (more or less,
of course, after getting all the dependencies in place).
At least this is also possible at FreeBSD ;) But that is not a good way
for server.
I have some customers paying me to keep old ports running/compiling even
after there were dropped from the portstree. This could be possibility
number 3 for you. Find somebody who is able to fix it.
Greetings,
Torsten
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