Hi hasufell, you seem to be interested in singular. There is a non-working ebuid for 4.0.0 in the science overlay which you can do whatever you want with. Singular has been very hard to bring into Gentoo shape in the past, but maybe things are improving now. I'm aware of the QA bugs you reported, but it seems like a mountain of useless work. I'd rather treeclean singular than fix those. Cheers, Thomas -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [gentoo-science] singular-4.0.0 Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 16:04:16 +0200 From: Thomas Kahle <tomka@gentoo.org> Reply-To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Hi, singular-4.0.0 still does not work. Remember last time we wanted to change configure of omalloc to not check that the ar programm is actually called 'ar'. This requires rebuilding the build system which fails in many many different ways. I suspect that upstream uses a very old version of autotools because some upgrade broke their scripts? I remember that last time I asked them, they said that using autoreconf ourselves is discouraged, we should use their pre-made configure. At the moment I don't have the energy to continue. Maybe things have changed upstream and they care about this now? If either of you wants to try, it's there in the overlay and upstream moved to github now: https://github.com/Singular Cheers, Thomas -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/