[Bug 502387] Review Request: mingw32-hunspell - MinGW Windows spell checker and morphological analyzer library

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--- Comment #2 from Erik van Pienbroek <erik-fedora at vanpienbroek.nl>  2009-05-26 06:36:02 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Have you tried to upstream your patches?
> Especially hunspell-build-dll.patch seems like very upstream-worthy.

Filed at
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2796772&group_id=143754&atid=756395

> Also, what is the failure mode of AC_FUNC_MALLOC? I guess a bug report with
> autoconf would be in order.  

The AC_FUNC_MALLOC is some kind of fallback for environments which don't have a
malloc() function in their libc. If this is the case (apparently it is for
MinGW), then a '#define malloc rpl_malloc' is added to config.h.

According to rjones, the rpl_malloc() function is part of gnulib. We don't have
gnulib in our MinGW toolchain, so this ends up in a undefined reference (to
rpl_malloc). After removing the AC_FUNC_MALLOC from the configure.ac file, the
compile completes without problems (and the malloc from the MinGW libraries is
used).

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