The following reply was made to PR pkg/34019; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/34019: [patch] comms/libmal does not compile on FreeBSD 6.1
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:27:57 +0200

 On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 05:50:00PM +0000, peter.schuller@infidyne.com wrote:
 > >Number:         34019
 > >Category:       pkg
 > >Synopsis:       [patch] comms/libmal does not compile on FreeBSD 6.1
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    pkg-manager
 > >State:          open
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   net
 > >Arrival-Date:   Mon Jul 17 17:50:00 +0000 2006
 > >Originator:     Peter Schuller
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 6.1
 > >Organization:
 > N/A
 > >Environment:
 > >Description:
 > comms/libmal does not compile:
 > 
 > In file included from ../malsync/mal/client/unix/MAL31DBConfig.c:26:
 > /usr/include/malloc.h:3:2: #error "<malloc.h> has been replaced by <stdlib.h>"
 > ../malsync/mal/client/unix/MAL31DBConfig.c: In function `MAL31DBConfigReadData':
 > ../malsync/mal/client/unix/MAL31DBConfig.c:41: warning: implicit declaration of function `malloc'
 > gmake[2]: *** [MAL31DBConfig.lo] Error 1
 > gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/pkgsrc/comms/libmal/work/libmal-0.40/src'
 > gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
 > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/pkgsrc/comms/libmal/work/libmal-0.40'
 > gmake: *** [all] Error 2
 > *** Error code 2
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 
 > >Fix:
 > Have stdlib.h be included instead of stdlib.h on FreeBSD:
 > 
 >    http://hyperion.scode.org/pkgsrc/libmal-malloc.patch
 
 Just kill the malloc.h and always include stdlib.h.
 
 Joerg