Re: pkg/41893: Should devel/boehm-gc be built with thread support by default?

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/41893; 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/41893: Should devel/boehm-gc be built with thread support
 by default?
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 19:27:15 -0400

 On Sat,  5 Nov 2011 21:15:04 +0000 (UTC)
 Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost> wrote:
 
 >  Personally, I currently am using a boehm-gc built with threads support,
 >  as I use ECL built with threads support as well.  I can't say that it's
 >  a problem on my slowest system (a 2793.16 MHz cache-crippled Celeron).
 >  However, boehm-gc is only used by ECL, w3m and Inkscape on my own
 >  systems.  I'm not sure that a boehm-gc-unthreaded would even be
 >  necessary, but who knows...
 
 I connected to an Ubuntu system and can see that their boehm-gc deb
 package includes thread support in libgc.so too.  However, boehm-gc is
 certainly more tested on Linux (and tweaked for it) than on BSD...
 -- 
 Matt