gentoo problem



Kirk Lancaster wrote:

>There seems to be a problem using Maxima on an AMD64.
>I get the following message when using gentoo.
>Any ideas?  (Also, who is creating the gentoo ebuilds?)
>
>bash-2.05b# emerge -p maxima
>
>These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
>Calculating dependencies
>!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "maxima" have been masked.
>!!! possible candidates are:
>- app-sci/maxima-5.9.0 (masked by: missing keyword)
>- app-sci/maxima-5.9.0-r1 (masked by: missing keyword)
>- app-sci/maxima-5.9.0-r2 (masked by: missing keyword)
>
>!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.
>
>_______________________________________________
>Maxima mailing list
>Maxima@www.math.utexas.edu
>http://www.math.utexas.edu/mailman/listinfo/maxima
>
>  
>
Assuming that there are no seroius underlying issues, you will have to 
add maxima to /etc/portage/package.unmask. Something like this:

=app-sci/maxima-5.9.0-r2

I think you will also need to add

=app-sci/maxima-5.9.0-r2 ~amd64

to /etc/portage/package.keywords.

One last thing. The ebuilds greater than 5.9.0 allow you to select which 
clisp you want to use with maxima. I would recommend "gcl" so add

-cmucl gcl

to you USE variable in /etc/make.conf.

Good luck
Kev


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