Re: build fails with libgnumalloc for evbarm

[Iain Hibbert <plunky%ogmig.net@localhost>]

On Fri, 15 Jan 2016, Rin Okuyama wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Building release fails with libgnumalloc for evbarm:

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?

regards,
iain