Re: libgnumalloc

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:13:07PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20100619212709.GB19838%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
> Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >is there any point to continue shipping libgnumalloc? It's not even the
> >malloc used by a modern glibc and I don't think it can compete with the
> >libc malloc.
> 
> Is there anything dynamically linked against it?

From pkgsrc:
archivers/gcpio
chat/bnc
chat/xaric
www/squid*

I don't see a point for either of this. gcpio enforces it for some
unknown reason and the rest picks it up via manual autoconf checks.
At least xaric and squid would fall back to libbsdmalloc, which is even
worse.

Joerg