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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>,
	Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz>,
	Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>,
	Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>,
	Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>,
	Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>,
	61873@debbugs.gnu.org, Andrew Whatson <whatson@tailcall.au>
Subject: [bug#61873] [PATCH core-updates] gnu: libgc: Update to 8.2.2 and remove '--disable-munmap'.
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:47:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y/4+HS0G59stzdyr@jurong> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230228173854.25132-1-ludo@gnu.org>

Am Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 06:38:54PM +0100 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> This is another proposal for a world-rebuild change, hopefully the latest
> (I swear!).  It’s quite important because it fixes a libgc bug that led
> us to build libgc with ‘--disable-munmap’, meaning it would not return
> memory to the OS:
>   https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/issues/353
> Thanks to Andrew Whatson for tackling this and for letting me know!
> 
> Given that the test suite of Guix passed and that everything in between
> went fine, I’m rather confident.
> Thoughts?

Indeed, the bug looks important to fix!

Concerning world rebuilding, I do not know if anybody did; I did not ;-)
So maybe after pushing this, we could set up jobs on the build farms to
rebuild the world twice.

Andreas





  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-28 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-28 17:38 [bug#61873] [PATCH core-updates] gnu: libgc: Update to 8.2.2 and remove '--disable-munmap' Ludovic Courtès
2023-02-28 17:47 ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2023-03-02 14:36   ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-02 18:29     ` Josselin Poiret via Guix-patches via
2023-03-02 20:54     ` bug#61873: " Ludovic Courtès

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