Re: build fails with libgnumalloc for evbarm

[Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

On 15.01.2016 15:02, Rin Okuyama wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2016/01/15 21:19, Iain Hibbert wrote:
>> A few years ago I looked at libgnumalloc briefly, and found that
>> 
>> % grep -Ri gnumalloc /usr/src /usr/xsrc
>> 
>> seems to reveal that there are no actual users of libgnumalloc in
>> our current tree..  the XFree86 and Xorg NetBSD.cf files disable
>> it for NetBSD>1.4J, and pkgsrc showed nothing explicitly
>> referring to it.
>> 
>> The README file says
>> 
>> | This is the standalone distribution of GNU malloc. | GNU malloc
>> is part of the GNU C Library, but is also distributed |
>> separately.
>> 
>> but looking at gnu.org I don't see that the latter is still true,
>> and our version is very old according to the VERSION file
>> 
>> | this version of GNU malloc was obtained from | prep.ai.mit.edu
>> on 9/22/1993.  There was no version noted."
>> 
>> ..are there any known uses for this, is it time to remove it?
> 
> Also, anyone no longer uses libbsdmalloc.
> 

I think we should promote BSD jemalloc, which is used widely by e.g.
Firefox and has active upstream (in FreeBSD).
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2
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=nbVL
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----