Opened 15 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

Last modified 10 years ago

#2670 closed task (fixed)

GC 7.2alpha4

Reported by: willimm Owned by: blfs-book@…
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: BOOK Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
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Description (last modified by Randy McMurchy)

Version increment to 7.2alpha4 per the author's recommendation.

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/gc_source/

Attachments (2)

blfs-gc-update.patch (1.4 KB ) - added by willimm 15 years ago.
GC update patch for BLFS.
blfs-update_to_gc_7.2alpha4.patch (1.8 KB ) - added by willimm 13 years ago.
Should be good enough for merging.

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Change History (21)

comment:1 by Randy McMurchy, 15 years ago

Milestone: 6.4future

Deferring this until Hans himself recommends to use a version other than the current BLFS version (6.8).

See http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/index.html for futher information.

comment:2 by willimm, 15 years ago

For one, many distros use this version. In my option, it would be best to follow the distros and use 7.1.

comment:3 by willimm, 15 years ago

Milestone: future6.4
Owner: changed from blfs-book@… to willimm

Han's option is one option. The other distros... well, it would be best to follow their path, so I want this to be for 6.4

And also, I'll have a patch for this soon.

comment:4 by willimm, 15 years ago

Status: newassigned

by willimm, 15 years ago

Attachment: blfs-gc-update.patch added

GC update patch for BLFS.

comment:5 by Randy McMurchy, 15 years ago

Owner: changed from willimm to blfs-book@…
Status: assignednew

Until Hans updates his version of stable, we will go with what Hans says is stable.

comment:6 by Randy McMurchy, 15 years ago

Milestone: 6.46.5

Modified milestone from 6.4 to 6.5

comment:7 by Randy McMurchy, 14 years ago

Owner: changed from blfs-book@… to Randy McMurchy
Status: newassigned

I have sent a personal email to Hans asking him to clarify what he considers to be the stable version of GC on a standard Linux platform. If I receive a response, I'll post it here.

in reply to:  7 ; comment:8 by Randy McMurchy, 14 years ago

Replying to randy@…:

I have sent a personal email to Hans asking him to clarify what he considers to be the stable version of GC on a standard Linux platform. If I receive a response, I'll post it here.

And within 10 hours I receive a reply. Here it is verbatim:

Unfortunately, we currently don't have a great story there.  I suspect most people will actually be better off with 7.2alpha4 than 6.8 or 7.1.  We're trying to finally get 7.2 out.

Hans 

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Randy McMurchy [mailto:randy@linuxfromscratch.org] 
> > Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:18 AM
> > To: Boehm, Hans
> > Subject: Stable Version of GC
> > 
> > Hello Hans,
> > 
> > I am the Editor of a book named "Beyond Linux From Scratch".
> > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/gc.html
> > 
> > That is our current page for your GC package. We've stayed at 
> > the 6.8 release because the information on your web site 
> > http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
> > says to use this version as it is considered the most mature 
> > and stable version.
> > 
> > However, I'm wondering if perhaps the site has not been 
> > updated recently and that version 7.1 should be considered stable.
> > 
> > Our book's policy is to include building instructions for 
> > packages that the upstream maintainers consider their stable 
> > version. Could you clarify for us what you consider to be the 
> > stable version of GC on a standard Linux platform?

in reply to:  8 comment:9 by Randy McMurchy, 14 years ago

A more readable, condensed version:

Replying to randy@…:

Replying to randy@…:

I have sent a personal email to Hans asking him to clarify what he considers to be the stable version of GC on a standard Linux platform. If I receive a response, I'll post it here.

And within 10 hours I receive a reply. Here it is verbatim:

Unfortunately, we currently don't have a great story there.
I suspect most people will actually be better off with 7.2alpha4
than 6.8 or 7.1.  We're trying to finally get 7.2 out.
> 
> Hans 

comment:10 by (none), 13 years ago

Milestone: 6.5

Milestone 6.5 deleted

comment:11 by Randy McMurchy, 13 years ago

Milestone: 6.7

Updated milestone to 6.7

comment:12 by Randy McMurchy, 13 years ago

Description: modified (diff)
Summary: GC 7.1GC 7.2alpha4

Gotta do what the developer says is "the right thing"

by willimm, 13 years ago

Should be good enough for merging.

comment:13 by willimm, 13 years ago

I've added a new patch to update GC. I didn’t update the build size required, but that's because I don't really measure that anyway. If there is a good way to measure the build size on multipartitioned systems, I'd like to know that.

in reply to:  13 comment:14 by bdubbs@…, 13 years ago

Replying to willimm:

If there is a good way to measure the build size on multipartitioned systems, I'd like to know that.

Build on /tmp and install on temp using DESTDIR. Measure spaced used before and after:

free_now=df -k / | grep / | sed -e "s/ \{2,\}/ /g" | cut -d" " -f3

comment:15 by bdubbs@…, 12 years ago

Owner: changed from Randy McMurchy to blfs-book@…
Status: assignednew

comment:16 by bdubbs@…, 12 years ago

Milestone: 6.7current

comment:17 by Armin K, 12 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Even big distros still use 7.1 version. I really don't see the point why would we upgrade to alpha one when, as the developer said, when we suspect that we will be off better. We don't have some requirements that require version > 7.1. Won't fix.

comment:18 by Armin K, 12 years ago

Sorry, status is "won't fix", not "fixed" ...

comment:19 by bdubbs@…, 10 years ago

Milestone: current

Milestone current deleted

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