On 06.10.2016 18:14, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 05.10.2016 18:28, Jeff Law wrote:
>> On 10/04/2016 12:39 PM, Iain Sandoe wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I don't know who wants to review it, but if people want me to, Ok.  The idea
>>>> is that if ObjC is the last remaining user in tree for boehm-gc, then
>>>> reasonably I'm the last man standing.  Of course, if others want to review
>>>> approve the patch, I'm fine with that.
>>>>
>>>> I'm fine with patches to externalize boehm-gc if people want to push that
>>>> direction.
>>>
>>> +1
>> Works for me as well, particularly since we've been horrible at updating
>> boehm-gc.  I think the in-tree version is something like 10 years old at this
>> point -- and there's been over a dozen upstream releases since we last sync'd.
>>
>> Jeff
> 
> Here's what I tested. This requires a boehm-gc version 7.0 or later (having the
> header files in a gc subdirectory).  Depending on your available library, it
> only builds the GC enabled library for the default multilib library, and just
> skips over building the non-default multilib variants (assuming that most people
> won't have a libgc for that installed).  The --enable-objc-gc option is not
> documented, so I didn't update the documentation.
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 2016-10-06  Matthias Klose  <doko@ubuntu.com>
> 
>         * boehm-gc: Remove
>         * Makefile.def: Remove boehm-gc dependencies.
>         * Makefile.in: Regenerate.
>         * configure.ac: Include pkg.m4, check for bdw-gc pkg-config module.
>         * configure: Regenerate.
> 
> config/
> 
> 2016-10-06  Matthias Klose  <doko@ubuntu.com>
> 
>         * pkg.m4: New file.
> 
> libobjc/
> 
> 2016-10-06  Matthias Klose  <doko@ubuntu.com>
> 
>         * configure.ac: Include pkg.m4, use bdw-gc pkg-config module.
>         * configure: Regenerate.

and sending the attachment again without the boehm-gc removal ...