Andy Dougherty wrote:
I don't think this is a packaging problem, but instead it is a different-version problem. Most likely, Configure.pl ought to try to compile, link, and run a sample program that actually uses Boehm GC in a way similar to the way it will be used in parrot, and only say "Yes, you have Boehm GC" if that sample program works.
For a long time config/auto/gc.pm allowed you to choose (via command-line options) among 4 different garbage collection systems. The only problem was: Only one of them worked! So we decided to strip out all the code pertaining to the vaporware systems.
Bacek, your exploration of Boehm GC may mean that it's time to put a command-line option back in and to add an 'elsif boehm' stanza to auto::gc. That stanza would run a sample program as Andy D describes.
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