From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RzIbq-0002KA-3b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:04:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AF098E08C3 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.64]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECAC4E0C79 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta21.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.72]) by qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id c1JB1i0041ZXKqc571tpZZ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:53:49 +0000 Received: from ajax ([24.11.47.14]) by omta21.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id c1tp1i00W0JMh7c3h1tpF4; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:53:49 +0000 Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:53:20 -0500 From: Frank Peters To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-science] Geomview and Boehm GC Message-Id: <20120219205320.e1009886.frank.peters@comcast.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.2 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7d10863d-ea70-4c5d-985d-0767e2310752 X-Archives-Hash: 809ca0ad96e296f1ae485128b4ac1bdb Hello, I notice that one of the requirements for the gentoo ebuild of geomview is the Boehm garbage collector. Having compiled geomview manually for some time, I have never encountered an option for the boehm-gc. What is the purpose of requiring boehm-gc for gentoo's ebuild and how is it integrated with the source code? Frank Peters