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[gnulib.git] / lib / relocatable.c

diff --git a/lib/relocatable.c b/lib/relocatable.c
index cbff85f..68ceb71 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/relocatable.c
+++ b/lib/relocatable.c
@@ -2,20 +2,18 @@
    Copyright (C) 2003-2006, 2008-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2003.
 
-   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-   under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published
-   by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-   any later version.
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
 
    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-   Library General Public License for more details.
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
 
-   You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
-   License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-   Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
-   USA.  */
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
 
 
 /* Tell glibc's <stdio.h> to provide a prototype for getline().
@@ -25,6 +23,7 @@
 # define _GNU_SOURCE 1
 #endif
 
+#define _GL_USE_STDLIB_ALLOC 1
 #include <config.h>
 
 /* Specification.  */
@@ -86,8 +85,18 @@
 # define FILE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN(P) 0
 #endif
 
-/* Use the system functions, not the gnulib overrides in this file.  */
-#undef malloc
+/* Whether to enable the more costly support for relocatable libraries.
+   It allows libraries to be have been installed with a different original
+   prefix than the program.  But it is quite costly, especially on Cygwin
+   platforms, see below.  Therefore we enable it by default only on native
+   Win32 platforms.  */
+#ifndef ENABLE_COSTLY_RELOCATABLE
+# if (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && !defined __CYGWIN__
+#  define ENABLE_COSTLY_RELOCATABLE 1
+# else
+#  define ENABLE_COSTLY_RELOCATABLE 0
+# endif
+#endif
 
 /* Original installation prefix.  */
 static char *orig_prefix;
@@ -158,7 +167,7 @@ set_relocation_prefix (const char *orig_prefix_arg, const char *curr_prefix_arg)
 #endif
 }
 
-#if !defined IN_LIBRARY || (defined PIC && defined INSTALLDIR)
+#if !defined IN_LIBRARY || (defined PIC && defined INSTALLDIR && ENABLE_COSTLY_RELOCATABLE)
 
 /* Convenience function:
    Computes the current installation prefix, based on the original
@@ -288,7 +297,7 @@ compute_curr_prefix (const char *orig_installprefix,
 
 #endif /* !IN_LIBRARY || PIC */
 
-#if defined PIC && defined INSTALLDIR
+#if defined PIC && defined INSTALLDIR && ENABLE_COSTLY_RELOCATABLE
 
 /* Full pathname of shared library, or NULL.  */
 static char *shared_library_fullname;
@@ -334,7 +343,9 @@ find_shared_library_fullname ()
 #if (defined __linux__ && (__GLIBC__ >= 2 || defined __UCLIBC__)) || defined __CYGWIN__
   /* Linux has /proc/self/maps. glibc 2 and uClibc have the getline()
      function.
-     Cygwin >= 1.5 has /proc/self/maps and the getline() function too.  */
+     Cygwin >= 1.5 has /proc/self/maps and the getline() function too.
+     But it is costly: ca. 0.3 ms on Linux, 3 ms on Cygwin 1.5, and 5 ms on
+     Cygwin 1.7.  */
   FILE *fp;
 
   /* Open the current process' maps file.  It describes one VMA per line.  */
@@ -407,7 +418,7 @@ get_shared_library_fullname ()
 const char *
 relocate (const char *pathname)
 {
-#if defined PIC && defined INSTALLDIR
+#if defined PIC && defined INSTALLDIR && ENABLE_COSTLY_RELOCATABLE
   static int initialized;
 
   /* Initialization code for a shared library.  */