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Building and installing jemalloc can be as simple as typing the following while
in the root directory of the source tree:
./configure
make
make install
=== Advanced configuration =====================================================
The 'configure' script supports numerous options that allow control of which
functionality is enabled, where jemalloc is installed, etc. Optionally, pass
any of the following arguments (not a definitive list) to 'configure':
--help
Print a definitive list of options.
--prefix=<install-root-dir>
Set the base directory in which to install. For example:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
will cause files to be installed into /usr/local/include, /usr/local/lib,
and /usr/local/man.
--with-rpath=<colon-separated-rpath>
Embed one or more library paths, so that libjemalloc can find the libraries
it is linked to. This works only on ELF-based systems.
--with-jemalloc-prefix=<prefix>
Prefix all public APIs with <prefix>. For example, if <prefix> is
"prefix_", API changes like the following occur:
malloc() --> prefix_malloc()
malloc_conf --> prefix_malloc_conf
/etc/malloc.conf --> /etc/prefix_malloc.conf
MALLOC_CONF --> PREFIX_MALLOC_CONF
This makes it possible to use jemalloc at the same time as the system
allocator, or even to use multiple copies of jemalloc simultaneously.
By default, the prefix is "", except on OS X, where it is "je_". On OS X,
jemalloc overlays the default malloc zone, but makes no attempt to actually
replace the "malloc", "calloc", etc. symbols.
--with-private-namespace=<prefix>
Prefix all library-private APIs with <prefix>. For shared libraries,
symbol visibility mechanisms prevent these symbols from being exported, but
for static libraries, naming collisions are a real possibility. By
default, the prefix is "" (empty string).
--with-install-suffix=<suffix>
Append <suffix> to the base name of all installed files, such that multiple
versions of jemalloc can coexist in the same installation directory. For
example, libjemalloc.so.0 becomes libjemalloc<suffix>.so.0.
--enable-cc-silence
Enable code that silences non-useful compiler warnings. This is helpful
when trying to tell serious warnings from those due to compiler
limitations, but it potentially incurs a performance penalty.
--enable-debug
Enable assertions and validation code. This incurs a substantial
performance hit, but is very useful during application development.
--enable-stats
Enable statistics gathering functionality. See the "opt.stats_print"
option documentation for usage details.
--enable-prof
Enable heap profiling and leak detection functionality. See the "opt.prof"
option documentation for usage details. When enabled, there are several
approaches to backtracing, and the configure script chooses the first one
in the following list that appears to function correctly:
+ libunwind (requires --enable-prof-libunwind)
+ libgcc (unless --disable-prof-libgcc)
+ gcc intrinsics (unless --disable-prof-gcc)
--enable-prof-libunwind
Use the libunwind library (http://www.nongnu.org/libunwind/) for stack
backtracing.
--disable-prof-libgcc
Disable the use of libgcc's backtracing functionality.
--disable-prof-gcc
Disable the use of gcc intrinsics for backtracing.
--with-static-libunwind=<libunwind.a>
Statically link against the specified libunwind.a rather than dynamically
linking with -lunwind.
--disable-tiny
Disable tiny (sub-quantum-sized) object support. Technically it is not
legal for a malloc implementation to allocate objects with less than
quantum alignment (8 or 16 bytes, depending on architecture), but in
practice it never causes any problems if, for example, 4-byte allocations
are 4-byte-aligned.
--disable-tcache
Disable thread-specific caches for small objects. Objects are cached and
released in bulk, thus reducing the total number of mutex operations. See
the "opt.tcache" option for usage details.
--enable-swap
Enable mmap()ed swap file support. When this feature is built in, it is
possible to specify one or more files that act as backing store. This
effectively allows for per application swap files.
--enable-dss
Enable support for page allocation/deallocation via sbrk(2), in addition to
mmap(2).
--enable-fill
Enable support for junk/zero filling of memory. See the "opt.junk"/
"opt.zero" option documentation for usage details.
--enable-xmalloc
Enable support for optional immediate termination due to out-of-memory
errors, as is commonly implemented by "xmalloc" wrapper function for malloc.
See the "opt.xmalloc" option documentation for usage details.
--enable-sysv
Enable support for System V semantics, wherein malloc(0) returns NULL
rather than a minimal allocation. See the "opt.sysv" option documentation
for usage details.
--enable-dynamic-page-shift
Under most conditions, the system page size never changes (usually 4KiB or
8KiB, depending on architecture and configuration), and unless this option
is enabled, jemalloc assumes that page size can safely be determined during
configuration and hard-coded. Enabling dynamic page size determination has
a measurable impact on performance, since the compiler is forced to load
the page size from memory rather than embedding immediate values.
--disable-lazy-lock
Disable code that wraps pthread_create() to detect when an application
switches from single-threaded to multi-threaded mode, so that it can avoid
mutex locking/unlocking operations while in single-threaded mode. In
practice, this feature usually has little impact on performance unless
thread-specific caching is disabled.
--disable-tls
Disable thread-local storage (TLS), which allows for fast access to
thread-local variables via the __thread keyword. If TLS is available,
jemalloc uses it for several purposes.
--with-xslroot=<path>
Specify where to find DocBook XSL stylesheets when building the
documentation.
The following environment variables (not a definitive list) impact configure's
behavior:
CFLAGS="?"
Pass these flags to the compiler. You probably shouldn't define this unless
you know what you are doing. (Use EXTRA_CFLAGS instead.)
EXTRA_CFLAGS="?"
Append these flags to CFLAGS. This makes it possible to add flags such as
-Werror, while allowing the configure script to determine what other flags
are appropriate for the specified configuration.
The configure script specifically checks whether an optimization flag (-O*)
is specified in EXTRA_CFLAGS, and refrains from specifying an optimization
level if it finds that one has already been specified.
CPPFLAGS="?"
Pass these flags to the C preprocessor. Note that CFLAGS is not passed to
'cpp' when 'configure' is looking for include files, so you must use
CPPFLAGS instead if you need to help 'configure' find header files.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="?"
'ld' uses this colon-separated list to find libraries.
LDFLAGS="?"
Pass these flags when linking.
PATH="?"
'configure' uses this to find programs.
=== Advanced compilation =======================================================
To install only parts of jemalloc, use the following targets:
install_bin
install_include
install_lib
install_doc
To clean up build results to varying degrees, use the following make targets:
clean
distclean
relclean
=== Advanced installation ======================================================
Optionally, define make variables when invoking make, including (not
exclusively):
INCLUDEDIR="?"
Use this as the installation prefix for header files.
LIBDIR="?"
Use this as the installation prefix for libraries.
MANDIR="?"
Use this as the installation prefix for man pages.
DESTDIR="?"
Prepend DESTDIR to INCLUDEDIR, LIBDIR, DATADIR, and MANDIR. This is useful
when installing to a different path than was specified via --prefix.
CC="?"
Use this to invoke the C compiler.
CFLAGS="?"
Pass these flags to the compiler.
CPPFLAGS="?"
Pass these flags to the C preprocessor.
LDFLAGS="?"
Pass these flags when linking.
PATH="?"
Use this to search for programs used during configuration and building.
=== Development ================================================================
If you intend to make non-trivial changes to jemalloc, use the 'autogen.sh'
script rather than 'configure'. This re-generates 'configure', enables
configuration dependency rules, and enables re-generation of automatically
generated source files.
The build system supports using an object directory separate from the source
tree. For example, you can create an 'obj' directory, and from within that
directory, issue configuration and build commands:
autoconf
mkdir obj
cd obj
../configure --enable-autogen
make
=== Documentation ==============================================================
The manual page is generated in both html and roff formats. Any web browser
can be used to view the html manual. The roff manual page can be formatted
prior to installation via any of the following commands:
nroff -man -t doc/jemalloc.3
groff -man -t -Tps doc/jemalloc.3 | ps2pdf - doc/jemalloc.3.pdf
(cd doc; groff -man -man-ext -t -Thtml jemalloc.3 > jemalloc.3.html)
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