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Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/boehm-gc



Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost> writes:

> On Thu, 01 May 2014 20:30:16 -0400
> Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>> So given the bug history, it seems that boehm-gc with threads is likely
>> the normal case, and we need to add a boehm-gc-nothreads package, and
>
> Historically in pkgsrc threads were disabled by default for boehm-gc,
> until very recently.  The intent of pkg/41893 was originally to enable
> threads by default, but then it became evident that some issues existed.
>
> On some Linux distributions, it's indeed now enabled by default (i.e.
> on Ubuntu); but I also could not reproduce the same bugs on Linux when
> I last tried.

So (assuming lots of work that hasn't happened yet happens and packages
can choose threaded or not libgc with no difficulty), would you set ecl
to be threaded by default?  It seems like there is a bug, but that at
least for your case you find it better to have threads and avoid the
bug.

Does anyone else have an example of something that breaks?

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