need help with a poudriere build error of the port math/maxima

[Niclas Zeising]

On 2020-07-07 02:03, Robert Cina wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 4:23 PM Thierry Thomas <thierry at freebsd.org 
> <mailto:thierry at freebsd.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Le lun.  6 juil. 20 à 20:06:47 +0200, Robert Cina
>     <transitive at gmail.com <mailto:transitive at gmail.com>>
>       écrivait :
> 
>      > Hi, I need help with creating a patch for a poudriere build error I'm
>      > experiencing for the port math/maxima using 12.1 stable amd64.
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>      > I have filed a bug #247805 for the issue and was told there is no
>      > maintainer for this port and I should create a patch for it
>     myself. The
>      > only problem is I don't know where to start to debug the specific
>     error in
>      > question.
> 
>     I have not yet tested the committed version, but previously I tested the
>     version proposed in Phabricator at:
>     https://reviews.freebsd.org/rP541227
>     and it built fine, either in poudriere or as a port in my workstation
>     (I´m still using it to run Sage).
> 
> 
> I checked out r541227 version of the port and tried building the maxima 
> port with poudriere 12.1 stable and it failed to build for me with the 
> same issue from bug #247805.  However, when building on my workstation 
> outside of poudriere with the latest version r541376 I was able to 
> successfully build and install maxima. I am not sure what the difference 
> is and why it fails at the staging phase when I use poudriere.  If 
> anyone can add some insight it is welcome.

Hi!
Just a FYI, I can reproduce this in poudriere as well.  I'm nost super 
familiar with math/maxima, but I'll have a look and see what I find.
Regards
-- 
Niclas Zeising