Re: boehm-gc still has issues

[Richard Hansen <rhansen%bbn.com@localhost>]

On 2014-01-16 13:20, Jeff Rizzo wrote:
> On 1/15/14, 4:56 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> lang/mono2 fails on NetBSD 6 i386, apparently due to bugs in boehm-gc,
>> where it doesn't use pthread calls correctly to find the stack:
>>
>>    http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=46147
>>
>> and discussion about workarounds in mono by turning off boehm-gc:
>>
>>    http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=45828
>>
>> It would be nice if someone were to fix boehm-gc or knows enough to
>> report it upstream.  Upstream's HOMEPAGE did not immediately indicate a
>> bug tracker, but the source is now on github and seems active.
> 
> Ah hah!  This explains why my pbulk runs on amd64 (6.1.2) hang in mono...

I haven't had any problems with lang/mono2 on amd64 (it builds fine for
me).  It does fail to build on i386, however.

-Richard