Fix: remove AC_FUNC_MALLOC from configure.ac

AC_FUNC_MALLOC fails cross-compile builds and is
only used to detect non-standard glibc behavior where
malloc(0) does not return a null pointer.

We don't depend on that behavior since we would have
to ship a compat implementation of malloc() for this
macro to be of any use.

Keep it commented because autoscan will report it
as missing and it might get re-introduced.

Signed-off-by: Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d31f576bf158703ffc1d9bd1776ac93df64dad91..7341aa037b56bbe9ce0170460086731a5f937012 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -85,7 +85,6 @@ CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $PTHREAD_CFLAGS"
 CC="$PTHREAD_CC"
 
 # Checks for library functions.
-AC_FUNC_MALLOC
 AC_FUNC_MMAP
 AC_FUNC_FORK
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS([ \
@@ -102,6 +101,9 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS([ \
        sysconf \
 ])
 
+# AC_FUNC_MALLOC causes problems when cross-compiling.
+#AC_FUNC_MALLOC
+
 # Check for headers
 AC_HEADER_STDBOOL
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([ \