Hello Stuart,
Thank you for the quick response.
> Because it's so arch-dependent
I have looked thru the mentioned patches — almost everything is already
upstreamed.
The exceptions are:
*
https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/devel/boehm-gc/patches/patch-Makefile_in
— it is autogenerated file, probably it is not needed neither (with the fresh
automake and Makefile.am from v8.2.4)
*
https://github.com/openbsd/ports/commit/249e6c0862f3530709a3d5a91db7fbf392530aff#diff-198daac1abb01bca1444f2126281ae29a9e30de671cb75b7200967096dfda0c2R12
— I don’t understand the reason of deletion of define HAVE_DL_ITERATE_PHDR
(in dyn_load.c), if this define is not correct, then I will fix this in the
upstream.
So, after the update to 8.2.4, at most 2 patches will survive. And the
following upgrade would be easier. (I keep an eye on many distros, and almost
all distro-specific patches have gone away over the recent several year.)
As for the change in boehm-gc since 8.0.4 — please see
https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/blob/d1ff06cc503a74dca0150d5e988f2c93158b0cdf/ChangeLog
, although it is very verbose, you might see a lot of ‘Fix ...’ lines in it.
Regards,
Ivan
>Sat, 10 Jun 2023, 11:16 +03:00 from Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>:
>
>On 2023/06/10 10:44, Ivan Maidanski wrote:
>> Hello Stuart,
>>
>> -------- Forwarded --------
>> From: Ivan Maidanski < [email protected] >
>> To: Kurt Miller < [email protected] >, [email protected], Christian
>> Weisgerber < [email protected] >
>> CC: [email protected], Kurt Miller < [email protected] >
>> Data: Sun, 10 Jun 2023, 10:02 +03:00
>> Subj: OpenBSD devel/boehm-gc: update to 8.2.4
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> Could you please update devel/boehm-gc from upstream?
>> Upstream tarballs:
>> * https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/releases/download/v8.2.4/gc-8.2.4.tar.gz
>> (sha256:
>> 3d0d3cdbe077403d3106bb40f0cbb563413d6efdbb2a7e1cd6886595dec48fc2)
>> *
>> https://github.com/ivmai/libatomic_ops/releases/download/v7.8.0/libatomic_ops-7.8.0.tar.gz
>> (
>> sha256: 15676e7674e11bda5a7e50a73f4d9e7d60452271b8acf6fd39a71fefdf89fa31)
>>
>> I have prepared a patch (for MidnightBSD, might be useful to you):
>> https://github.com/
>> MidnightBSD/mports/pull/93/commits/61a2239e6fb3b2b65cfa8e45c736a41a8d3433d0
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> [1] https://openports.pl/path/devel/boehm-gc
>> [2] http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/devel/boehm-gc/
>> [3] https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/devel/boehm-gc/distinfo
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ivan
>That midnightbsd patch isn't helpful to us.
>
>Because it's so arch-dependent, updating boehm-gc on OpenBSD
>is a fairly major undertaking - there are various patches
>to make it work on the many archs supported by OpenBSD
>( https://github.com/openbsd/ports/tree/master/devel/boehm-gc/patches )
>which don't merge cleanly. even just finding people with the right
>hardware to test updates is tricky - there aren't many ports developers
>who have access to a wide enough range of hardware for this.
>
>So the port only usually gets updated when there's a real need to do so,
>rather than just because a new version is available.
