A more helpful error when --without-jemalloc is impossible

When jemalloc is the system allocator (on FreeBSD and NetBSD), trying
to build --without-jemalloc caused an obscure compiler error. Instead,
complain at configure time that --without-jemalloc cannot work. (It
needs to remain an error because it is vexing when configure quietly
ignores an explicit direction.)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 903287748b3aa28b208c7dfed8fa2f0af74b3ade..a8b4ac290c47d9bfbfb150ce459772e81b96b254 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1400,7 +1400,10 @@ AS_CASE([$with_jemalloc],
            with_jemalloc=no])])
 
 AS_IF([test "$with_jemalloc" = "no"],
-      [AC_CHECK_FUNCS([malloc_size malloc_usable_size])])
+      [AS_CASE([$host],
+              [*-freebsd*],[AC_MSG_ERROR([You cannot compile without jemalloc; jemalloc is the system allocator on FreeBSD])],
+              [*-netbsd*],[AC_MSG_ERROR([You cannot compile without jemalloc; jemalloc is the system allocator on NetBSD])])
+       AC_CHECK_FUNCS([malloc_size malloc_usable_size])])
 
 AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_JEMALLOC], [test "$with_jemalloc" = "yes"])