Broken dependencies in universe

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 08:59:35AM -0700, Keith Irwin wrote:

> Is there a way we can volunteer to track down and offer fixes for our
> favorite packages?  For instance, I'd love to get the SBCL and CMUCL
> packages working (the common lisp compilers), but have no idea who to
> contact about a fix.

Of course.  The ubuntu-devel mailing list is the place to carry out such
efforts.

> I downloaded the source I found in universe and tried to compile and
> found some problems compiling the older lisp with a newer compiler, but
> have no idea what to do about it.  I suspect that the reason sbcl didn't
> compile is because it needs another lisp (or itself) to exist in the
> build environment in order to compile itself.
> 
> This means that I'd have to know how it's being built, not just what the
> error was. ("DepWait."  Was it waiting for itself?)

If a package required itself in order to build, then it needs to be
bootstrapped by hand.  This is usually a straightforward matter; let's
discuss it on -devel.

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 - mdz