Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 10:33:00 -0500 From: Rich Murphey <rich@lamprey.utmb.edu> To: bde@zeta.org.au Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, roberto@keltia.Freenix.FR Subject: Re: XFree86 and the new malloc Message-ID: <199509221533.KAA04960@id.slip.bcm.tmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <199509221414.AAA10070@godzilla.zeta.org.au> (message from Bruce Evans on Sat, 23 Sep 1995 00:14:43 %2B1000)
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|From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> |>Hey, wait a sec. XFree86 3.1.2 does use -lgnumalloc. We |>had been testing it but only switched when it passed all the |>alpha/beta tests, and that happened after 3.0 came out. | |Yes, XFree86 3.1.2 is linked to a nonstandard malloc. This unfortunately |means that people running the newest versions of everything, so that they |have phkmalloc, the latest Xfree, and sig11's (:-), won't automatically |be testing phkmalloc where testing/use is most important/beneficial. People wanted gnumalloc linked into the server, so yes. You can build a phkmalloc shared library and call it /usr/lib/libgnumalloc.so.2.0 if you want the 3.1.2 server to use phkmalloc. I've done this in the past to test the server with various versions of malloc and I plan on doing it again for the alpha/beta tests. |FreeBSD-2.0.5 only has Xfree 3.1.1. I don't use X much, and 3.2.2 doesn't |work here (*), so I just use the version of the cdrom. | |(*) The W32 version used to hang waiting for a bit in ACL_ACCELERATOR_STATUS, |always after switching the console back to X and sometimes at startup. In |3.1.2, it aborts early in initialization related to this when it references |an uninitialized ACL_ACCELERATOR pointer. OK, I'll forward this to the alpha list so they'll know. Rich
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