Package: autoconf
Version: 2.59a-3
Severity: important

In cross compiling the AC_MALLOC_FUNC function will *always* indicate
that malloc should be replaced with rpl_malloc.  The code in the
./configure scripts looks like this:

echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for GNU libc compatible malloc" >&5
echo $ECHO_N "checking for GNU libc compatible malloc... $ECHO_C" >&6
if test "${ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull+set}" = set; then
  echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6
else
  if test "$cross_compiling" = yes; then
  ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=no
else
  cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
/* confdefs.h.  */
_ACEOF
[...]


The test $cross_compiling check will force the test to fail even if
the target compiler is GCC and has no such bug.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages autoconf depends on:
ii  debianutils                   2.8.4      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  m4                            1.4.2-1    a macro processing language
ii  perl                          5.8.4-5    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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