[Pkg-gauche-devel] [Gauche-devel] Gauche and bundled GC - still needed?

[Jens Thiele]

Christoph Egger <christoph at christoph-egger.org> writes:

> Hi folks!
>
>    Sorry for the huge delay. I started to work at a new place in a
> different country and it still takes a lot of time leaving less free
> time for Debian.

no problem

> Jens Thiele <karme at karme.de> writes:
>> Cristoph:
>> Sorry that i added you to cc withouth any explanation.
>> Don't know whether you followed the discussion [0] but maybe you have some
>> additional comments? would a libgc-no-added-byte.so be ok for you?
>
>    I can certainly build two libraries out of libgc. It's definitely too
> late to have this for the upcoming wheezy release but I can add the
> option for jessie and I can upload the change to experimental. Can you
> fill a bug report so it doesn't get lost?

I reached NIIBE Yutaka (debian gauche maintainer) - he didn't have time
either:

NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe at fsij.org> writes:
> I'm sorry not to write my own view to the list, but I don't think
> adding different shared library like libgc-no-added-byte.so make
> sense.  I think that it is just a superficial workaround.  It would
> solve a problem partially, but it certainly opens a can of worms.
>
> Some facts:
>
>    * symbol namespace for ELF shared objects are single.
>    * Even if libgc-no-added-byte.so and normal libgc.so has no symbol
>      conflicts, I am skeptical about its inter-operability.
>
> Thus, I think that it is better to merge in libgc into libgauche.so
> (for a while), basically.