[boehm-gc] add

[michaelvoliveira]

This is a garbage collection (GC) library for C and C++ written by Hans-J. Boehm, Alan J. Demers and Mark Weiser. Programs that use malloc(), calloc(), realloc() and free() can use this library. This package is designed for use specifically with SmallEiffel?. In file /usr/include/gc.h, malloc(), calloc(), realloc() and free() are redefined to call the GC routines. (from rpm description)

Dependency of GUILE

[michaelvoliveira]

 http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/

[andreasf]

I gave the CVS version a try recently only to find out that thread support for BeOS was missing completely and is highly OS-specific, so someone would need to add that for Haiku.

[michaelvoliveira]

Initial .bep file

[michaelvoliveira]

.opd file

[michaelvoliveira]

Hi andreasf!

Give a try with my patch file!

[andreasf]

Replying to michaelvoliveira:

Give a try with my patch file!

Your bep file does not enable threads at all. Compare r717 and the following diff.

Iirc it doesn't compile with threads enabled, without them make check leads to a crash.

[andreasf]

draft patch

[scottmc]

You might try comparing this patch with Kaliber's patch

 http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/pingwinek/trunk/packages/gc/gc-haiku.patch?rev=13375&dir_pagestart=600&view=markup

and make sure everything that needs to be covered is, merging the best of both patches into one clean one.

Be sure to read through their porting info page, as there's a lot of things that don't seem to be covered in either of these patches:
 http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/porting.html

[michaelvoliveira]

Yes, scott.

Because libguile gives me the error "Could not resolve symbol 'GC_pthread_create'"

[michaelvoliveira]

Add patch by Kaliber as scott suggested

[hamish]

I don't know if anyone still needs this, but here's a complete patch for 7.2 alpha 6. Build with --enable-threads=posix --enable-thread-local-alloc --enable-parallel-mark for best performance.

[augiedoggie]

Replying to hamish:

I don't know if anyone still needs this, but here's a complete patch for 7.2 alpha 6. Build with --enable-threads=posix --enable-thread-local-alloc --enable-parallel-mark for best performance.

Nice, seems to work well. At least it allows w3m to build and function. Hopefully I'll work up the motivation to commit this soon ;)

[augiedoggie]

Added in r1876