GNU bug report logs - #23974
Outdated instructions regarding bdw-gc in guile 2.0.11

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From: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guile <at> gnu.org
Subject: Outdated instructions regarding bdw-gc in guile 2.0.11
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:45:12 -0400

When building guile 2.0.11, configure fails with a "No package
'bdw-gc' found" error, and README claims that "bdw-gc" (confusingly
referred to as "libgc") is still "available" at
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ . However, the garbage
collector has long disappeared from HP's home page (at least since
several years ago, definitely before 2014 when guile 2.0.11 was
released).

The "bdw-gc" *appears* to be now located at
https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc . If this is the correct location the
README should at least be updated. (The instructions should also at
least be made consistent so that the gc is not called "bdw-gc" in one
place and "libgc" in another.)

Message #10 received at 23974-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
To: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 23974-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23974: Outdated instructions regarding bdw-gc in guile 2.0.11
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 12:13:50 +0200

On Wed 13 Jul 2016 20:45, Ambrose LI <ambrose.li <at> gmail.com> writes:

> When building guile 2.0.11, configure fails with a "No package
> 'bdw-gc' found" error, and README claims that "bdw-gc" (confusingly
> referred to as "libgc") is still "available" at
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ . However, the garbage
> collector has long disappeared from HP's home page (at least since
> several years ago, definitely before 2014 when guile 2.0.11 was
> released).
>
> The "bdw-gc" *appears* to be now located at
> https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc . If this is the correct location the
> README should at least be updated. (The instructions should also at
> least be made consistent so that the gc is not called "bdw-gc" in one
> place and "libgc" in another.)

Hi,

Thanks for the report, and sorry we have been so derelict at getting new
releases out -- this one has been fixed in Git for a while.  I want to
release 2.0.12 today, so that will truly fix this issue.

Regards,

Andy.

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