dmalloc will not write out memory activity to a logfile. Both static and shared versions are affected. The environment variables (set by running dmalloc utility) are definitely correct because everything works fine when I apply the attached build patch. Apparently the configure test for GETENV_SAFE failed with the default gentoo flags, which resulted in GETENV_SAFE 0 in conf.h This results in the skipping of the code in malloc.c that is supposed to read in the options from the environment! The reason the configure test failed seems to be that the sandbox library doesn't like it when the conftest redefines the standard lib function "malloc". Devs on #gentoo-portage were not suprised that this was failing, and suggested defining the test malloc as a static function. This allows the configure test to run without segfaulting and the problem is fixed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. link program with dmalloc 2. eval `dmalloc high -l DMALLOC.log 3. run program Actual Results: DMALLOC.log is not generated Expected Results: the memory usage information should be in a file DMALLOC.log Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/ppc/2004.3, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2 , 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 ppc 750FX Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.3 [2.3.3 (#1, Apr 12 2004, 22:25:22)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r5 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.90.0.3-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.2-r7 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=750 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=750 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache cvs digest distlocks maketest sandbox sfperms test" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr dvd esd f77 font-server fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gtk imagemagick imlib jpeg libwww motif ncurses opengl pam perl png ppc readline ssl tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml2 xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
Created attachment 50500 [details, diff] patch to allow building on ppc with sandbox enabled
Looks good. Thanks much for the patch.
