353240 – dev-libs/libatomic_ops is 5 years stale, merged with dev-libs/boehm-gc

Bug 353240 - dev-libs/libatomic_ops is 5 years stale, merged with dev-libs/boehm-gc

Summary: dev-libs/libatomic_ops is 5 years stale, merged with dev-libs/boehm-gc

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Development (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Sound Team

URL:	http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_B...
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Reported:	2011-01-30 16:48 UTC by Kevin Bowling
Modified:	2012-02-01 20:54 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Kevin Bowling 2011-01-30 16:48:53 UTC

The current libatomic_ops work was merged into the Boehm GC package in 2008.  http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ has a version 3 to 4 years more recent.  There are a handful of correctness fixes, some additional implementations (ppc64 features,arm variants, mips, Sun C Studio), and lots of autotools cleanups.

I think it would be a good idea to sync to 7.2alpha4.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Kevin Bowling 2011-02-14 17:05:41 UTC

I'm now tracking upstream on github to make accessing this modern version easier.

I will be tracking upstream and stay current and close to the Boehm GC version.

Can you revbump the ebuild based on 
https://github.com/kev009/libatomic_ops/tarball/gc7_2alpha5_2011-02-12 ?

Comment 2 Raymes Khoury 2011-04-18 18:07:34 UTC

Any update on this?

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-02-01 20:54:04 UTC

considering the boehm-gc tarball is small (like 1MiB), i've updated the ebuild to source it directly from there.  it just goes into the subdir and does a normal configure+make+make install.

libatomic_ops-7.2_alpha4 now in the tree