On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Gordon W. Ross wrote:

> I've recently tried a GNU-style build of gdb and discovered
> that I had to change gdb/Makefile.in to turn off the MMALLOC
> support because the mmalloc sources are not there.  So...
> 
> What is the best way to fix this?
> 
> [...] 

Why not change configure.in to check if/where we have mmalloc (and 
possible add usual configure-style options like --mmalloc-src-dir, 
--malloc-enable etc.) and let it create a Makefile according to
what it finds out.

That give us:
   (+) would allow normal GNU-style builds
   (+) then we don't need the mmalloc sources
and it doesn't affect those who have mmalloc, so I think it is
   (+) suitable for submission back to the maintainers.

Don't you think the gdb maintainer should accept such a patch?

   /Krister