# HG changeset patch
# Parent 38ae59cbbba369e1b4bd78b4b2f378e26548b79d
Do not enable -lmcheck by default when Python is enabled.

gdb/ChangeLog:

2012-08-30  Khoo Yit Phang  <khooyp@cs.umd.edu>

	Do not enable -lmcheck by default when Python is enabled.
	* configure.ac: Move --enable-lmcheck after --with-python.
	Do not enable -lmcheck by default if have_libpython=yes.
	Warn if --enable-lmcheck=yes and have_libpython=yes.
	* configure: Regenerate.

diff --git a/gdb/configure.ac b/gdb/configure.ac
--- a/gdb/configure.ac
+++ b/gdb/configure.ac
@@ -645,28 +645,6 @@
 AC_SUBST(READLINE_CFLAGS)
 AC_SUBST(READLINE_TEXI_INCFLAG)
 
-# 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
-
 # Generate jit-reader.h
 
 # This is typedeffed to GDB_CORE_ADDR in jit-reader.h
@@ -1028,6 +1006,32 @@
 AC_SUBST(PYTHON_CPPFLAGS)
 AC_SUBST(PYTHON_LIBS)
 
+# 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 ${enableval} for --enable-libmcheck) ;;
+   esac])
+
+# Enable -lmcheck by default (it provides cheap-enough memory mangling),
+# but turn it off if Python is enabled with threads, and for releases.
+if test -z "${ENABLE_LIBMCHECK}" -a "${have_libpython}" = "no" \
+    && $development ; then
+  ENABLE_LIBMCHECK=yes
+fi
+
+if test "$ENABLE_LIBMCHECK" = "yes" ; then
+  if test "${have_libpython}" != "no" ; then
+    AC_MSG_WARN(--enable-libmcheck may lead to spurious crashes if threads are used in python)
+  fi
+  AC_CHECK_LIB(mcheck, main)
+fi
+
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