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Diffstat (limited to 'pkgs/shells')
| -rw-r--r-- | pkgs/shells/bash/5.nix | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/shells/bash/5.nix b/pkgs/shells/bash/5.nix index 6b126390c9f..3beb54b908e 100644 --- a/pkgs/shells/bash/5.nix +++ b/pkgs/shells/bash/5.nix @@ -68,6 +68,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { ]; configureFlags = [ + # At least on Linux bash memory allocator has pathological performance + # in scenarios involving use of larger memory: + # https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2023-08/msg00052.html + # Various distributions default to system allocator. Let's nixpkgs + # do the same. + "--without-bash-malloc" (if interactive then "--with-installed-readline" else "--disable-readline") ] ++ lib.optionals (stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform) [ "bash_cv_job_control_missing=nomissing" @@ -81,7 +87,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec { "bash_cv_dev_fd=standard" "bash_cv_termcap_lib=libncurses" ] ++ lib.optionals (stdenv.hostPlatform.libc == "musl") [ - "--without-bash-malloc" "--disable-nls" ]; |