On Sun, Nov 10, 2024 at 11:10:17AM +0100, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 09, 2024 at 07:23:31PM -0500, George Koehler wrote:
[...]
> > I also want to report that 32-bit archs (powerpc but not powerpc64)
> > give lots of this warning,
> > | /usr/local/include/xxhash.h:617:16: warning: unknown attribute
> > | 'rpl_malloc' ignored [-Wunknown-attributes]
> > because <xxhash.h> has "__attribute__((malloc))" but
> > WRKSRC/gnulib/import/stdlib.h does "#define malloc rpl_malloc", after
> > WRKSRC/gnulib/import/m4/malloc.m4 checks "whether malloc is ptrdiff_t
> > safe", which is "no" on 32-bit archs.
> 
> Ugh, we want to address that at some point I think.

Probably something like:
MAKE_ENV=	gl_cv_malloc_ptrdiff=yes

If it does the job, builds and runs fine on powerpc, feel free to commit it.

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jca