Hello *,
asymptote-3.00 has just appeared, and I'm trying to update the ebuild.
asymptote now bundles boehm-gc; the option to use system boehm-gc is now
absent. asymptote-3.00/gc/README.md says that it's 8.2.8; however, the
sourse tree asymptote-3.00/gc differs from the plain gc-8.2.8. I suppose
some hacking autoconf files is needed to unbundle it, and it's a
nontrivial work. A pity.
What's more, compiling this bundled gc leads to sandbox violations like
F: open_wr
S: deny
P: /proc/4643/clear_refs
A: /proc/4643/clear_refs
R: /proc/4643/clear_refs
C: ./cordtest
and several more. All of them are in some test programs:
cordtest
gctest
staticrootstest
disclaim_test
disclaim_weakmap_test
All of them try to write to some /proc/*/clear_refs; I don't know what are
these /proc/*/clear_refs files. Surprisingly, all gc test are marked as
passed. Maybe, the resulting libgc (and the resulting asymptote) even
work. But, of course, the ebuild fails, and does not install these results.
Interestingly, emerging boehm-gc succeeds, no sandbox violations.
I suppose the best way out is to somehow force asymptote to use the system
boehm-gc. As a stopgap measure, is it possible to allow these test
programs to write to /proc/*/clear_refs?
Hoping for some help,
Andrey
