On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:28 PM, <bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, j.wuttke wrote: > >> A user of my software package reported that compilation on >> a virtual Linux machine running on his Mac failed because >> '::malloc' was not declared. >> >> We then found that AC_FUNC_MALLOC actually produced a 'no' >> in the ./configure output. >> >> This is not what I expected, and definitely not what I need. >> If there is no malloc on a box, I do not want my users do I assume that all C libraries for virtual Linux machines have malloc(), so I think the AC_FUNC_MALLOC check failed. Do you find helpful information in config.log? > What system does not have malloc()? It seems very odd to want > to test for it. There are embedded systems that have no malloc() and friends. Depending on test results, it could be that there are similar functions with different names, own implementations must be provided and used - or dynamic memory cannot be used at all... oki, Steffen _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
