Hi,

for some use cases ([1] for example) it would be useful to have a
version of libgc available, which was built with --enable-large-config.
I didn't dig into libgc to find out what the best way would be to
achive this, but I'm sure there is one ;)

Thanks,

Bernd


[1]
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tilesathome/2008-February/001835.html

Related to #503218, which I don't want to reopen, I again had the case of
inkscape not opening a file with a libgc without --enable-large-config. I
recompiled libgc and it worked. That's on x86 with 8G of RAM, so I'm ok
with inkscape chewing 6G of it. Maybe it could be made the default on
some architectures only? At least if it's a compatible change?

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> writes:

I'll look into it after the freeze

    Christoph

Cool, thanks a lot! Actually I even remember why I've opened the bug 5 years ago
- rendering OSM tiles needed --enable-large-config

Cheers,

Bernd

This issue still afects inkscape on Debian wheezy.

Would you mind to have a look when you have time, please?

Thanks,
Oriol

Adding --enable-large-config to ./configure is merely a one-line patch
(attached).

For reference, the option is also used in Fedora [1] and openSUSE [2].

Best,
Andy

1: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gc/blob/0ea34fde94df5628fb2155adedb5104a1c8a40c0/f/gc.spec#_61
2: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/devel:libraries:c_c++/gc/gc.spec?expand=1

Dear maintainer,

I've prepared an NMU for libgc (versioned as 1:7.6.4-0.5). The diff
is attached to this message.

Regards.

I would also like to see this.  libgc is used by Macaulay2, a software
platform for algebraic geometry and commutative algebra research, and
the memory limitations of the current Debian libgc package aren't
sufficient for some problems [3].

[3] https://github.com/Macaulay2/M2/issues/2445