[tlbuild] asy on Macintosh

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 07:19, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 00:30, Richard Koch wrote:
> >
> > A key discovery is that the latest Boehm garbage collector won't compile on
> > the Mac, but Bowman told me of a flag to revert to an earlier version.
>
> I need to test this later on, but that sounds strange as we are
> successfully compiling asymptote against boehmgc 8.0.4 in MacPorts.
> OK, admittedly, that's two minor versions newer from what we ship in
> TeX Live; I don't know whether that detail matters. (Why is asy in TeX
> Live using 8.0.2 as opposed to the latest version?)

I now see that it's missing from
    https://www.hboehm.info/gc/gc_source/

For MacPorts we fetch it from
    https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/releases

The changelog says (among others):
- Fix invalid initializer of CLOCK_TYPE variables if BSD_TIME
- Fix thread_info() count argument value (OS X)
which looks pretty relevant.

Mojca