tags 511296 +patch
thanks
Hi again:
Going on with the topic. Having surfed the internet for a while most places
point [0] for an explanation and possible fixes of the issue.
The problem exists specifically because in the 32bits part of the
configuration, the configure script is unable to find a GNU compliant malloc
function and hence outputs this:
checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... no
This happens when configuring build-tree-lib-biarch using this commandline:
CC="gcc -m32" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing" ../configure --cache-
file=../config.biarch.cache --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=i386-linux --
libdir=/emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --
disable-static --with-
libpath=/usr/lib/fakechroot:/usr/lib64/fakechroot:/usr/lib32/fakechroot
When doing this for some reason the test provided by AC_FUNC_MALLOC in
configure.ac and documented in [1] fails to find a GNU compatible malloc and
hence sets build system to use rpl_malloc function.
The patch I'm attaching defines ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes as suggested in
[0], so the 32 bits lib instance is forced to use of malloc rather than
rpl_malloc.
I think this is a deeper issue, maybe autoconf is to blame or maybe there is
a configure settings combination which bypass the configure script wrong
assumption.
HTH,
[0] http://wiki.buici.com/wiki/Autoconf_and_RPL_MALLOC
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Particular-
Functions.html#Particular-Functions
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--- debian/packages~ 2009-01-08 16:43:16.000000000 +0100
+++ debian/packages 2009-01-08 19:11:49.000000000 +0100
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
case "$DEB_HOST_ARCH" in
amd64)
pushd build-tree-lib-biarch
- CC="gcc -m32" CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" \
+ CC="gcc -m32" CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull="yes" \
../configure \
--cache-file=../config.biarch.cache \
--build=$DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE \
