Deactivate MALLOC_CHECK_ on x86_64

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 13.11.09 15:11:57, Alex Fiestas wrote:
> Hi
> Seems that MALLOC_CHECK_ feature of glibc is kind of broken in x86_64, giving 
> false positives. In release mode this has no effect to the user, just when 
> you're running KDE in development mode, MALLOC_CHECK_ will be set at 2, which 
> means that malloc will abort the application when one of that false given 
> errors happen.
> 
> So I suggest to deactivate MALLOC_CHECK_ on 64 bits systems, at least until it 
> gets fixed.
> 
> Some applications that usually crash on my system are:
> - digikam (I'm in digikam sprint right now and I've asked gilles and he 
> agrees)
> - kdevelop (I'm with apol here and he's concerned about this issue too).
> 
> Everybody agrees with that? 

This is already done in release packages (and afaik also stable branch)
via startkde. In trunk IMHO it should be staying at 2 as it might also
point out real problems. People compiling trunk should be able to set it
according to their needs themselves. 

At least for KDevelop I close all thos reports as a duplicate of one
that has a complete explanation of how to work around it.

Andreas

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