malloc.conf and java

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 03:23, Marco Wertejuk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i'm running current for a while and noticed, 
> that I need to setenv MALLOC_CONF aj
> in order to run Linux-Netscape7.02 with java-vm
> plugin.
> Otherwise Netscape complains about not having the
> appropriate plugin installed.
> 
> Interestingly there's no malloc.conf on my
> system, maybe because i've maked world from
> stable but i always run mergemaster and the
> step from stable to current is quite some 
> months ago.

In -CURRENT, AJ are the initial values set in malloc.c.

> 
> Any ideas what went wrong or is it just normal?

Normal for -CURRENT.  Releases have those options disabled by default.

> Maybe this should be documented somehow, because
> it saves a lot of painful netscape/java hacking :)

It's sort of documented in UPDATING, but it doesn't explicitly say to
set MALLOC_CONF or ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf.  Maybe it should.  If it's
documented elsewhere, I haven't seen it.

Joe

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