Re: pkg/41603: Making ECL work with threads

[Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/41603; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: asau%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/41603: Making ECL work with threads
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 02:40:14 -0400

 On Sun,  5 Jul 2009 04:05:02 +0000 (UTC)
 Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost> wrote:
 
 A test building ECL HEAD against boehm-gc 6.8 was done (since boehm-gc
 site claims that 6.8 is the stable recommended version, and to try 7.1
 otherwise).  Unfortunately the same problem persists where ecl_min
 hangs in an endless loop when setting up the environment with any
 ECL version >8.12.0 built with --enable-threads.  This raises doubts
 about the bug being in boehm-gc.
 
 However, Stalin (the Scheme compiler) also exhibits the same problem
 and it also uses boehm-gc and is linked against libpthread as well.  On
 the other hand, Inkscape and elinks, also using pthread and boehm-gc,
 appear to work fine.
 -- 
 Matt