Add support for --enable-lmcheck configure option.

This allows the user to enable this option at configure time if building
a release, or to disable it if building a snapshot.

gdb/ChangeLog:

        * configure.ac: Add --enable-lmcheck configure option.
        * configure: Regenerate.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index b2ddbb283c50c09916d5a229d8f70a721bdc4193..b5aa871600025261738b2b37d41656ce44f1a681 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-07-25  Joel Brobecker  <brobecker@adacore.com>
+
+       * configure.ac: Add --enable-lmcheck configure option.
+       * configure: Regenerate.
+
 2012-07-25  Tom Tromey  <tromey@redhat.com>
 
        * NEWS: Mention maint info bfds.

diff --git a/gdb/configure b/gdb/configure
index 819967d5234e1a4b5732db9db285d0fadda1b3d0..90927fffce5e7b0e0914c5ce9f10febbb7b9f8fa 100755 (executable)
--- a/gdb/configure
+++ b/gdb/configure
@@ -795,6 +795,7 @@ with_zlib
 with_libiconv_prefix
 with_iconv_bin
 with_system_readline
+enable_libmcheck
 with_jit_reader_dir
 with_expat
 with_gnu_ld
@@ -1465,6 +1466,7 @@ Optional Features:
   --enable-tui            enable full-screen terminal user interface (TUI)
   --enable-gdbtk          enable gdbtk graphical user interface (GUI)
   --enable-profiling      enable profiling of GDB
+  --enable-libmcheck      Try building GDB with -lmcheck if available
   --disable-rpath         do not hardcode runtime library paths
   --enable-werror         treat compile warnings as errors
   --enable-build-warnings enable build-time compiler warnings if gcc is used
@@ -7039,7 +7041,26 @@ fi
 
 
 
-if $development; then
+# Provide a --enable-libmcheck/--disable-libmcheck set of options
+# allowing a user to enable this option even when building releases,
+# or to disable it when building a snapshot.
+# Check whether --enable-libmcheck was given.
+if test "${enable_libmcheck+set}" = set; then :
+  enableval=$enable_libmcheck; case "${enableval}" in
+     yes | y) ENABLE_LIBMCHECK="yes" ;;
+     no | n)  ENABLE_LIBMCHECK="no" ;;
+     *) as_fn_error "bad value ${enableval} for --enable-libmcheck" "$LINENO" 5 ;;
+   esac
+fi
+
+
+# Enable -lmcheck by default (it provides cheap-enough memory mangling),
+# but turn it off for releases.
+if test -z "${ENABLE_LIBMCHECK}" && $development; then
+    ENABLE_LIBMCHECK=yes
+fi
+
+if test "$ENABLE_LIBMCHECK" = "yes" ; then
   { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for main in -lmcheck" >&5
 $as_echo_n "checking for main in -lmcheck... " >&6; }
 if test "${ac_cv_lib_mcheck_main+set}" = set; then :

diff --git a/gdb/configure.ac b/gdb/configure.ac
index f3d75b16af408d74a0c2e1a0baa867128a173f15..b33de61e22b979c2b9619981628eca6e5149bc4d 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/configure.ac
+++ b/gdb/configure.ac
@@ -645,8 +645,25 @@ AC_SUBST(READLINE_DEPS)
 AC_SUBST(READLINE_CFLAGS)
 AC_SUBST(READLINE_TEXI_INCFLAG)
 
-dnl -lmcheck provides cheap enough memory mangling for debugging purposes.
-if $development; then
+# Provide a --enable-libmcheck/--disable-libmcheck set of options
+# allowing a user to enable this option even when building releases,
+# or to disable it when building a snapshot.
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(libmcheck,
+  AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-libmcheck],
+                 [Try building GDB with -lmcheck if available]),
+  [case "${enableval}" in
+     yes | y) ENABLE_LIBMCHECK="yes" ;;
+     no | n)  ENABLE_LIBMCHECK="no" ;;
+     *) AC_MSG_ERROR(bad value ${enableval} for --enable-libmcheck) ;;
+   esac])
+
+# Enable -lmcheck by default (it provides cheap-enough memory mangling),
+# but turn it off for releases.
+if test -z "${ENABLE_LIBMCHECK}" && $development; then
+    ENABLE_LIBMCHECK=yes
+fi
+
+if test "$ENABLE_LIBMCHECK" = "yes" ; then
   AC_CHECK_LIB(mcheck, main)
 fi