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authorDoug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>2013-11-28 14:30:59 -0800
committerDoug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>2013-11-28 14:30:59 -0800
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* configure.ac: Add comments delineating libpython and libmcheck.
* configure: Regenerate.
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diff --git a/gdb/configure.ac b/gdb/configure.ac
index 294729305ff..7c37f25edbb 100644
--- a/gdb/configure.ac
+++ b/gdb/configure.ac
@@ -712,6 +712,10 @@ else
fi
fi
+# --------------------- #
+# Check for libpython. #
+# --------------------- #
+
dnl Utility to simplify finding libpython.
dnl $1 = pythonX.Y
dnl $2 = the shell variable to assign the result to
@@ -1050,6 +1054,10 @@ AC_SUBST(PYTHON_CFLAGS)
AC_SUBST(PYTHON_CPPFLAGS)
AC_SUBST(PYTHON_LIBS)
+# --------------------- #
+# Check for libmcheck. #
+# --------------------- #
+
# Enable -lmcheck by default (it provides cheap-enough memory mangling),
# but turn it off if Python is enabled with threads, since -lmcheck is
# not thread safe (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9939),