Re: [LINUX5250] TN5250 & X5250 issues

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Scott Klement wrote:

> This appears to be caused by the AC_FUNC_MALLOC macro in configure.ac.
>
> Try:
>  a) editing configure.ac
>  b) comment-out the AC_FUNC_MALLOC line, and
>  c) re-run ./autogen.sh and ./configure
>
> Please let us know if that solves the problem.

I'm not sure if we should do this.  The autoconf manual section on 
Particular Function Checks says:

"If the malloc function is compatible with the GNU C library malloc (i.e., 
`malloc (0)' returns a valid pointer), define HAVE_MALLOC to 1. Otherwise 
define HAVE_MALLOC to 0, ask for an AC_LIBOBJ replacement for `malloc', 
and define malloc to rpl_malloc so that the native malloc is not used in 
the main project."

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.57/html_mono/autoconf.html#SEC46

Apparently solaris doesn't have this behaviour so autoconf is correctly 
trying to redefine malloc to a portable version.  The manual also has the 
code for the portable malloc so I'll just put that together and make 
another tarball to try.

James Rich

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