Re: pkg/41603: Making ECL work with threads

[Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/41603; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/41603: Making ECL work with threads
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 00:16:26 -0400

 On Sun,  5 Jul 2009 04:05:02 +0000 (UTC)
 Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost> wrote:
 
 >  ECL maintainer accepted the thread related fixes upstream although
 >  there was no release yet, it's only available in CVS.  Moreover, I
 >  still experience endless loop of ecl_min if built with thread support
 >  with any >8.12.0 version.  The maintainer suspects this is due to a
 >  boehm-gc bug, this has to be verified.
 
 Oh, and he wishes he could test and debug ECL on NetBSD himself yet he
 appears to rely on VirtualBox and hopes that VB 3.0 will be able to
 boot NetBSD (as we know VirtualBox has been broken for some time and
 only supports a limited set of OSs).
 
 Thanks,
 -- 
 Matt