Max Horn

So here is a (nasty) way how we could perhaps resolve this: We add a new TNUM `T_PLACEHOLDER` (better name TBD). When we `DeclareGlobalVariable`, then we create a new instance...

@ChrisJefferson yeah, that sounds like a nice approach, except that we'd have to turn `InstallValue` into a compiler special, like `IsBound` and `Unbind`, which is not so nice ... :/...

Re-assigned to 4.10.0. This would be a major change, so certainly nothing for a minor bugfix release

Also: My idea for resolving this unfortunately was way too naive and does not work. So this still needs more work. I thought some more about the idea @ChrisJefferson sketched...

Actually, the way I read the documentation for `InstallValue` and `InstallFlushableValue` resp. `InstallFlushableValueFromFunction`, nothing in it indicates that `CLONE_OBJ` is used. It says this: > InstallValue assigns the value value...

Removing the milestone. Nobody is working on this right now; it only makes sense to set a milestone if we have a clear plan how to solve a given issue,...

My current plan is to eliminate as many uses of `InstallValue` as possible from the GAP library and packages. Ideally all, but more realistically just "most". Then hopefully the remaining...

Some notes: - pkg-config format is documented on various places: - http://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/pkg-config-guide.html - https://autotools.io/pkgconfig/index.html - A project which generates both a FOO-config and a FOO.pc is e.g. libpng; it does...

The `gap-config` script would likely have the usual switches like `--ldflags`, `--cppflags` etc., but also a couple specific ones (reflecting what is in sysinfo.gap); and I would suggest we also...

> This is particularly important now that libgap's headers require a garbage collector to be specified. That's not intentional, please open a bug report, then we can habe this fixed...