252504 – dev-lang/mercury bundles a copy of boehm-gc

Bug 252504 - dev-lang/mercury bundles a copy of boehm-gc

Summary: dev-lang/mercury bundles a copy of boehm-gc

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Keri Harris

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Blocks:	bundled-libs
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Reported:	2008-12-25 20:03 UTC by Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED)
Modified:	2009-02-11 07:16 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-12-25 20:03:22 UTC

Would be nice to make it use the system copy instead.

Comment 1 Keri Harris gentoo-dev

2009-02-11 07:16:56 UTC

I thought that allowing Mercury to use a system copy of Boehm GC would indeed be a worthwhile endeavour; alas, upstream didn't:

They inform me that their bundled copy of Boehm GC contains some custom code and is required by Mercury to handle large heaps, thread-local allocation and parallel marking.