Re: FreeBSD 5 hints patch

       Message-ID: <spPE+gzkg+6F092yn@efn.org>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@18538

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
index 3d2e8b99fc..6ce7766167 100755
--- a/Configure
+++ b/Configure
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 # $Id: Head.U,v 3.0.1.9 1997/02/28 15:02:09 ram Exp $
 #
-# Generated on Mon Dec 16 12:51:57 MET 2002 [metaconfig 3.0 PL70]
+# Generated on Tue Jan 21 18:59:19 MET 2003 [metaconfig 3.0 PL70]
 # (with additional metaconfig patches by perlbug@perl.org)
 
 cat >c1$$ <<EOF
@@ -6743,8 +6743,25 @@ set d_dosuid
 eval $setvar
 
 : see if this is a malloc.h system
-set malloc.h i_malloc
-eval $inhdr
+: we want a real compile instead of Inhdr because some systems have a
+: malloc.h that just gives a compile error saying to use stdlib.h instead
+echo " "
+$cat >try.c <<EOCP
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <malloc.h>
+int main () { return 0; }
+EOCP
+set try
+if eval $compile; then
+    echo "<malloc.h> found." >&4
+    val="$define"
+else
+    echo "<malloc.h> NOT found." >&4
+    val="$undef"
+fi
+$rm -f try.c try
+set i_malloc
+eval $setvar
 
 : see if stdlib is available
 set stdlib.h i_stdlib