[patch] The attached patch introduces the USE flag "large" to dev-libs/boehm-gc that sets a larger value for MAX_ROOTS and thus prevents applications like app-office/gnucash from crashing

0001-Enables-boehm-gc-with-large-root-sets.patch (text/plain), 1.76 KB, created by Dirk Tilger on 2021-05-18 07:07:15 UTC

From d794ccebc579f105a988a131feb2cb6bb98ec587 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dirk Tilger <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 04:37:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Enables boehm-gc with large root sets

This disables the 'No more root sets' error message for programs dealing
with large datasets (i.e. GnuCash data import)
---
 dev-libs/boehm-gc/boehm-gc-8.0.4.ebuild | 3 ++-
 dev-libs/boehm-gc/metadata.xml          | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dev-libs/boehm-gc/boehm-gc-8.0.4.ebuild b/dev-libs/boehm-gc/boehm-gc-8.0.4.ebuild
index 7211307e2d0..3d27a52ef73 100644
--- a/dev-libs/boehm-gc/boehm-gc-8.0.4.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/boehm-gc/boehm-gc-8.0.4.ebuild
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ LICENSE="boehm-gc"
 # We've been using subslot 0 for these instead of "1.1".
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris"
-IUSE="cxx static-libs +threads"
+IUSE="cxx +large static-libs +threads"
 
 RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/libatomic_ops-7.4[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]"
 DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ multilib_src_configure() {
 		$(use_enable cxx cplusplus)
 		$(use_enable static-libs static)
 		$(use threads || echo --disable-threads)
+		$(use_enable large large-config)
 	)
 
 	ECONF_SOURCE=${S} econf "${config[@]}"
diff --git a/dev-libs/boehm-gc/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/boehm-gc/metadata.xml
index e396f375597..f080ebd5fd0 100644
--- a/dev-libs/boehm-gc/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-libs/boehm-gc/metadata.xml
@@ -4,5 +4,6 @@
 <maintainer type="project">
 	<email>[e-mail]</email>
 	<name>Gentoo Toolchain Project</name>
+	<flag name="large">Enables large root sets</flag>
 </maintainer>
 </pkgmetadata>
-- 
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