nedi fails to build (on p5-math-pari)

[markd at macports.org]

p5-math-pari installs fine for me.  So is the problem fetching the
tarball?  If so, you can manually copy the tarball into
${prefix}/var/macports/distfiles/perl5 and then do the install.

Mark


>Message: 3
>Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:29:20 +0100
>From: Christoph Tilley <christoph at mxr.at>
>Subject: Re: nedi fails to build (on p5-math-pari)
>To: Bryan Blackburn <blb at macports.org>
>Message-ID: <32864E8E-7F99-4F40-A640-CFFFF53C584D at mxr.at>
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>Seems like we're stuck here, doesn't it? Unless someone helps us.
>
>Please help!
>
>
>On 06.11.2008, at 09:53, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:16:02AM +0100, Tilley Christoph said:
>>> Same thing again, unfortunately:
>>>
>>> tilley:~ srv_adm$ sudo port clean p5-math-pari
>> [...]
>>> Getting GP/PARI from ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/
>>
>> The issue is that the module wants to download a copy of the pari
>> tarball,
>> and is doing so via ftp (which appears to not work for you).
>>
>> I tried both updating the port to the current version and updating
>> it to try
>> and grab the file itself, but ran into several issues on my MBP.
>>
>> pari does some asm and some of this doesn't carry over into the
>> perl module.
>> I get undefined symbols, as it appears those symbols are declared
>> common,
>> trying various things to change this runs into further issues.
>> Since my
>> Intel assembly + Mac experience is too small, I had to quit at this
>> point.
>>
>> Bryan
>>
>>
>> [...]