Re[2]: [Gc] GC_enable_incremental() fails on FreeBSD

[Ivan Maidanski]

Hi Vitaly and Alex,

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:25:09 +0200 Alex Rønne Petersen <xtzgzorex at gmail.com>:
>   
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Alex Rønne Petersen <xtzgzorex at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> I have the following test case:
>  >> [...]
>  >> (gdb) bt
>  >> #0 0x000000080085dbf8 in GC_FreeBSDGetDataStart () from
>  >> [...]
>  >> libgc version is 7.1.
>  >
>  > 7.1 is known to fail like this on 9.0 and newer (even though 7.1 is in
>  > the ports).
>  > AFAIK, 7.2c and 7.3alpha2 do not crash, and 7.3 passes all tests.

What are the tests of 7.2c that fail?

>  > Can you try any of them instead?
>  >
>  > (I can dig up my patches to get the port up to 7.3 if you'd like).
> 
>  That would be much appreciated - I guess that would be simpler than
>  building from source.

To build from git repository:
1. make sure you have autoconf and libtool,
2. download and install libatomic_ops
3. run ./autogen.sh

Regards,

> 
>  Thanks!
> 
>  Regards,
>  Alex