[developers] ECL compilation

[Ben Waldron]

It seems to be a conflict between the version of gc distributed with ECL 
as opposed to that distributed with the Linux distro. Bernd filed a bug 
report at sourceforge (although without mentioning the --enable-boehm 
configure option).

- Ben

Eric Nichols wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Using --enable-boehm=system breaks compilation, so this seems to be a 
> conflict between the versions of gc distributedwith ECL and different 
> linux distros, or a problem with how the headers are called. Did Bernd 
> file a bug report on this?
>
> Eric
>
> Ben Waldron wrote:
>> Eric Nichols wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I can confirm this error and fix on a 32-bit platform running Ubuntu 
>>> Breezy
>>> when the libgc headers are installed. Does setting 
>>> --enable-boehm=included
>>> use the system's headers or the ones distributed with ECL?
>> It uses the headers included/distributed with ECL; 
>> '--enable-boehm=system' will grab the system's headers (I think).
>>
>> - Ben