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Re: thread support in devel/boehm-gc



At Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:21:53 +0000,
David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 02:52:40AM -0700, Min Sik Kim wrote:
>  > Is it okay to enable thread support in devel/boehm-gc?
>  > 
>  > It was explicitly disabled when boehm-gc was updated to 6.3 in 2004,
>  > but the commit log doesn't show why.  Currently, it is enabled only on
>  > Darwin, because the package didn't build without it (PR 26588).
> 
> As a rough guess it ought not to be enabled for NetBSD-4.
> 
> Something came up recently where failure ofthreads in boehm-gc was
> breaking something else...

Thanks for the feedback.

Then I will enable it as an option for now.

-- 
Min Sik Kim


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