FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>]

What information does AC_FUNC_MALLOC give us?  I've generally found with 
autotools that the most specialized macro usually works best, but I'm by 
no means an autoconf expert (getting there by bits and pieces though).

Brian

On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, James Cameron wrote:

> Norman Palardy wrote:
> > Has someone incorporated all the things I ran into recently with the OS
> > X 10.1 build ?
> 
> I've found nothing incorporated yet.  Let's work through it together.  I
> can't do it myself because I don't have such a system.
> 
> FreeTDS project needs to adjust our configure.in file.
> 
> We could check for malloc.h using AC_CHECK_HEADER.  Or use AC_CHECK_FUNC
> for malloc.  Or even AC_FUNC_MALLOC.  Which?
> 
> (There's an AC_FUNC_ALLOCA.  Most of the code uses malloc or realloc. 
> calloc is used only once, in src/dblib/unittests/common.c and alloca is
> not used.)
> 
> We have in include/tds.h.in noted a FIX ME on using autoconf for the
> existence of malloc.h.
> 
> I think I'm half way there.  Comments from others?
> 
>