Remove AC_CHECK_MALLOC to allow for cross-compilation

3 files changed, 5 insertions, 72 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 1ca4d5f..ba1dd45 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -622,6 +622,7 @@ ac_includes_default="\
 ac_subst_vars='am__EXEEXT_FALSE
 am__EXEEXT_TRUE
 LTLIBOBJS
+LIBOBJS
 WINDOWS_FALSE
 WINDOWS_TRUE
 UNIX_FALSE
@@ -639,7 +640,6 @@ PKG_CONFIG_PATH
 PKG_CONFIG
 CURSES_CFLAGS
 CURSES_LIBS
-LIBOBJS
 EGREP
 GREP
 CPP
@@ -4440,74 +4440,7 @@ fi
 
 
 # Checks for library functions.
-for ac_header in stdlib.h
-do :
-  ac_fn_c_check_header_mongrel "$LINENO" "stdlib.h" "ac_cv_header_stdlib_h" "$ac_includes_default"
-if test "x$ac_cv_header_stdlib_h" = xyes; then :
-  cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF
-#define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
-_ACEOF
-
-fi
-
-done
-
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for GNU libc compatible malloc" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... " >&6; }
-if ${ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull+:} false; then :
-  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
-else
-  if test "$cross_compiling" = yes; then :
-  ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=no
-else
-  cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
-/* end confdefs.h.  */
-#if defined STDC_HEADERS || defined HAVE_STDLIB_H
-# include <stdlib.h>
-#else
-char *malloc ();
-#endif
-
-int
-main ()
-{
-return ! malloc (0);
-  ;
-  return 0;
-}
-_ACEOF
-if ac_fn_c_try_run "$LINENO"; then :
-  ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes
-else
-  ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=no
-fi
-rm -f core *.core core.conftest.* gmon.out bb.out conftest$ac_exeext \
-  conftest.$ac_objext conftest.beam conftest.$ac_ext
-fi
-
-fi
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull" >&5
-$as_echo "$ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull" >&6; }
-if test $ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull = yes; then :
-
-$as_echo "#define HAVE_MALLOC 1" >>confdefs.h
-
-else
-  $as_echo "#define HAVE_MALLOC 0" >>confdefs.h
-
-   case " $LIBOBJS " in
-  *" malloc.$ac_objext "* ) ;;
-  *) LIBOBJS="$LIBOBJS malloc.$ac_objext"
- ;;
-esac
-
-
-$as_echo "#define malloc rpl_malloc" >>confdefs.h
-
-fi
-
-
-for ac_func in mkdir strrchr
+for ac_func in malloc mkdir strrchr
 do :
   as_ac_var=`$as_echo "ac_cv_func_$ac_func" | $as_tr_sh`
 ac_fn_c_check_func "$LINENO" "$ac_func" "$as_ac_var"
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 623f5c4..74f501e 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([stdlib.h string.h unistd.h])
 AC_CHECK_HEADER_STDBOOL
 
 # Checks for library functions.
-AC_FUNC_MALLOC
-AC_CHECK_FUNCS([mkdir strrchr])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([malloc mkdir strrchr])
 
 # Check for curses with color support
 AX_WITH_CURSES
diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md
index 8219ebd..4006f43 100644
--- a/docs/README.md
+++ b/docs/README.md
@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ For Windows instructions, see [here](windows_compile_instructions.md)
 
 terminal-media-launcher can be compiled on any system with make, gcc, and the ncurses development library installed. It can be compiled and installed on any Linux distribution, and can also be compiled and run on Microsoft Windows. To compile and run terminal-media-launcher:
 
-1. Install dependencies. On Debian and Debian-based systems:
+1. Install dependencies. 
 
+On Debian and Debian-based systems:
 ```
 # apt install gcc libncurses-dev make
 ```