remove eFence support

The eFence memory debugging tool has these days been superseded by Valgrind and
Address Sanitizer. Closes #1827.

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b43ef868cd77bd93f9d851dbfe5442ff7860ad27..2948e0961bbdc395d1a0f9809d42af45edeabdb0 100644 (file)
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Changed
 - Cgraph's agheap() API has been removed
+- Autotools build system support for eFence has been removed
 
 ### Fixed
 - gvpr: line numbers in gvpr errors/warnings are incorrect #1594

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7f839fc6952ab5a9f2fcd5c7aeed44494030b45b..9a400b01be2c123eb85c52d90f47cc160e1818e7 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -514,16 +514,6 @@ AC_SUBST([LIBLTDL])
 AC_SUBST([LIBLTDL_LDFLAGS])
 LIBS="$save_LIBS"
 
-dnl -----------------------------------
-dnl ElectricFence support for debugging
-
-AC_ARG_WITH(efence,
-   [AS_HELP_STRING([--with-efence=no],[use efence for debugging memory use])],
-   [],[with_efence=no])
-if test "x$with_efence" = "xyes"; then
-       LIBS="$LIBS -lefence"
-fi
-
 dnl -----------------------------------
 dnl Checks for X header files.