add malloc implementation selection to configure

the intent here is to keep oldmalloc as an option, at least for the
short term, in case any users are negatively impacted in some way by
mallocng and need to fallback until their issues are resolved.

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 4359882..0dfd2d1 100755 (executable)
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -35,6 +35,9 @@ Optional features:
   --disable-shared        inhibit building shared library [enabled]
   --disable-static        inhibit building static library [enabled]
 
+Optional packages:
+  --with-malloc=...       choose malloc implementation [oldmalloc]
+
 Some influential environment variables:
   CC                      C compiler command [detected]
   CFLAGS                  C compiler flags [-Os -pipe ...]
@@ -139,6 +142,7 @@ static=yes
 wrapper=auto
 gcc_wrapper=no
 clang_wrapper=no
+malloc_dir=oldmalloc
 
 for arg ; do
 case "$arg" in
@@ -168,6 +172,7 @@ case "$arg" in
 --disable-wrapper|--enable-wrapper=no) wrapper=no ;;
 --enable-gcc-wrapper|--enable-gcc-wrapper=yes) wrapper=yes ; gcc_wrapper=yes ;;
 --disable-gcc-wrapper|--enable-gcc-wrapper=no) wrapper=no ;;
+--with-malloc=*) malloc_dir=${arg#*=} ;;
 --enable-*|--disable-*|--with-*|--without-*|--*dir=*) ;;
 --host=*|--target=*) target=${arg#*=} ;;
 --build=*) build=${arg#*=} ;;
@@ -214,6 +219,12 @@ done
 set +C
 trap 'rm "$tmpc"' EXIT INT QUIT TERM HUP
 
+#
+# Check that the requested malloc implementation exists
+#
+test -d "$srcdir/src/malloc/$malloc_dir" \
+|| fail "$0: error: chosen malloc implementation '$malloc_dir' does not exist"
+
 #
 # Check whether we are cross-compiling, and set a default
 # CROSS_COMPILE prefix if none was provided.
@@ -779,6 +790,7 @@ OPTIMIZE_GLOBS = $OPTIMIZE_GLOBS
 ALL_TOOLS = $tools
 TOOL_LIBS = $tool_libs
 ADD_CFI = $ADD_CFI
+MALLOC_DIR = $malloc_dir
 EOF
 test "x$static" = xno && echo "STATIC_LIBS ="
 test "x$shared" = xno && echo "SHARED_LIBS ="