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  • [gentoo-dev] problems with media-gfx/asymptote

    From Andrey Grozin@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 18 13:20:01 2025
    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

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  • From Andrey Grozin@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 18 20:10:01 2025
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    while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.

    On Tue, 18 Feb 2025, Jérôme Carretero wrote:
    As an asymptote user, I went to check the issue tracker: https://github.com/vectorgraphics/asymptote/issues
    and the forum: https://sourceforge.net/p/asymptote/discussion/409349/thread/f8851c5214/
    but I'm not seeing anything related to this.
    But from the upstream point of view, there is no issue. When I run these <something>test programs outside the Gentoo sandbox, they succeed and
    report that the test has passed.

    This is an issue for Gentoo only.

    Andrey

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