On Friday 22 March 2013 4:08:47 pm James Turner wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:01:42PM -0500, Kurt Miller wrote: > > On Thursday 21 March 2013 7:47:34 am Brad Smith wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:43:15AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > > On 2013/03/21 12:32, Taylan Ulrich B. wrote: > > > > > Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > > > > > > > As I said, "perhaps the uthread workarounds that we used to have > > > > > > in the port got committed upstream and now need to be reverted?" > > > > > > > > > > > > .... i.e. _used_ to have, before the change to rthreads. > > > > > > > > > > Oh sorry, I understand now. Indeed, the patches in e.g. 5.0 ports > > > > > seem > > > > > equivalent to what is now upstream (although not exactly identical). > > > > > > > > > > In your opinion, should upstream Boehm GC try to support pre-rthreads > > > > > OpenBSD versions as well, or drop that and only support rthreads? > > > > > (Or do > > > > > the new patches work for both?) > > > > > > > > As far as I'm concerned it's not really worth supporting both, but > > > > this depends on their usual policies.. > > > > > > Upstream insisted on supporting both. > > > > > > > > Any way, the new patches will have to be integrated to master. Would > > > > > anyone like to take that job? If not, I'd like to try, although I > > > > > don't > > > > > know how long it would take for me. > > > > > > > > I don't want that job ;) > > > > > > AFAIK Kurt was talking about this recently and he was working with > > > upstream > > > to have the patches integrated. > > > > I stalled on submitting them with upstream. I ran into a snafu. However, I > > do have an update for boehm-gc that can be tested. There's one i386 > > machine in my cluster that doesn't behave which is one of the reasons > > I haven't moved this forward yet. It is on my todo list which I'm chipping > > away at little by little. > > > > -Kurt > > boehm-gc built and packaged fine on mips64el but all tests failed > miserably. >
Thanks for the report. Does the 7.0 one in ports current work or fail too? -Kurt
