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From: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby)
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Subject: Re: CTC Linux Mandate
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Ollivier Robert writes:

> According to Mark Mayo:
> > FWIW, a lot of people are running Squid on FreeBSD with lots of success.
> > If you're trying to get the CTC to not run Linux, just read the GPL to
> > them... it's certainly one of the main reasons I don't run Linux and do
> > run FreeBSD (aside from the bazillions of technical motivations ;-)
> 
> The only thing to remember when compiling Squid (and many othe programs
> too) is to include "-lgnumalloc" as the standard malloc is the old
> BSD/Caltech one...

Not if you're using FreeBSD 2.2 or higher.  It has PHK's improved malloc 
built into libc, which is just as good as gnumalloc.  In fact, in these 
versions of FreeBSD, gnumalloc is actually a stub library for backwards 
compatibility, and linking with it won't do anything useful.

-- Jake