Ports suggestions: gedit-devel and gedit-plugins

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Wed May 7 17:16:33 PDT 2003


On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 20:09, Adam wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 19:53, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > Most likely this crash will only occur with the default current malloc
> > options (i.e. AJ).  If you have a malloc.conf that disables these, you
> > won't see the crash.
> 
> My FreeBSD 5.0 machine doesn't actually have a malloc.conf link. Perhaps
> this is the problem? I'm not tracking -CURRENT. I just downloaded the
> 5.0 ISO and installed from that. Haven't even updated the sources. I've
> been waiting for the official 5.1 ISO to be released. Should I go ahead
> and create a malloc.conf symlink?

The malloc options in 5.0-RELEASE should be aj by default, so
malloc.conf isn't needed.  The same is true for -STABLE.  

> 
> However, my FreeBSD 4.8 machine *does* have a malloc.conf:
> -$ ls -al /etc/malloc.conf 
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  2 Apr  4 17:33 /etc/malloc.conf -> aj

This should be a no-op on -STABLE.

Joe

> 
> 
> Perhaps all this is a clue into the cause of the problem?
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