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Bug 224653

Summary: boehm-gc useflag has two different spellings
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Dror Levin (RETIRED) <spatz>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo Quality Assurance Team <qa>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: dev-embedded+disabled, grozin, sci, ulm
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Dror Levin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-06-02 18:35:26 UTC
dev-embedded/sdcc has the useflag 'boehmgc' while media-gfx/asymptote has 'boehm-gc'. These should probably be unified. Also, use.local.desc mentions 'boehmgc' as a useflag for dev-db/monetdb which does not exist.
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-06-02 19:11:01 UTC
$ euses boehm
dev-db/monetdb:boehmgc - enables Boehm Garbage Collector for XQuery
dev-embedded/sdcc:boehmgc - Enable Hans Boehm's garbage collector
media-gfx/asymptote:boehm-gc - Enables using the Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector

The first package (dev-db/monetdb) appears to have been removed two weeks ago. As for the others, not only the spelling but also the meaning seems different.

CC'ing maintainers... asymptote is without a maintainer (not CC'ing maintainer-needed@gentoo.org) dev-embedded@gentoo.org for dev-embedded/sdcc.
Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2008-08-06 07:33:05 UTC
> dev-embedded/sdcc:boehmgc - Enable Hans Boehm's garbage collector
> media-gfx/asymptote:boehm-gc - Enables using the Boehm-Demers-Weiser
> conservative garbage collector
> 
> As for the others, not only the spelling but also the meaning seems different.

The "Boehm-Demers-Weiser garbage collector" is also known as the "Boehm garbage collector", so no different meaning.

> CC'ing maintainers... asymptote is without a maintainer

CCing sci and grozin for asymptote.
Comment 3 Denis Dupeyron (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-08-06 08:06:44 UTC
I'll be happy to change sdcc if needed, we just have to decide which one we want.

Denis.
Comment 4 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2008-08-06 15:21:12 UTC
> I'll be happy to change sdcc if needed, we just have to decide which one we
> want.

I think one is as good as the other. ;-) However, asymptote's use is older:

revision 1.2606
date: 2007-02-18 12:54:07 +0100;  author: centic;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -1;  c
ommitid: 91545d83e424567;
Add local use flags boehm-gc and gsl for media-gfx/asymptote, see Bug 167405.

revision 1.3501
date: 2008-04-20 19:52:24 +0200;  author: calchan;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -1;  
commitid: 6d99480b82c24567;
Added local use flag 'boehmgc' for dev-embedded/sdcc.
Comment 5 Denis Dupeyron (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-08-06 18:04:48 UTC
OK, I fixed sdcc. Closing this.

Denis.