Re: port-macppc/37812: X.org's X server dumps core on NetBSD/macppc -current

[Aymeric Vincent <vincent%labri.fr@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-macppc/37812; it has been noted by 
GNATS.

From: Aymeric Vincent <vincent%labri.fr@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: port-macppc-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, 
gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
         netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-macppc/37812: X.org's X server dumps core on NetBSD/macppc 
-current
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:50:53 +0100

 Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
 
 >  On NetBSD/powerpc XFree86's ( and apparently Xorg's ) ELF loader  
 >  seems to rely on malloc() always returning memory chunks close enough  
 >  together to use 24bit relocations while jemalloc returns memory from  
 >  all over the place. Someone with more ELF clue than me needs to fix  
 >  this.
 
 For X.org, I don't know if jemalloc causes problems, but even without
 (i.e. USE_JEMALLOC=no in /etc/mk.conf), Xorg -configure dumps core.
 
 Regards,
  Aymeric