--- lib_pcre/pcre.h.orig	Fri Jan 11 10:19:12 2002
+++ lib_pcre/pcre.h	Mon Nov 17 06:16:46 2003
@@ -86,9 +86,19 @@
 /* Store get and free functions. These can be set to alternative malloc/free
 functions if required. Some magic is required for Win32 DLL; it is null on
 other OS. */
-
+/* force usage of native malloc is a dirty hack to get
+   around "gp-relative relocation against dynamic symbol
+   pcre_(malloc|free)" problem on Alpha as reported in
+   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=kroupware&m=106849138602149. Using
+   it prevents applications from providing customized memory management
+   functions for pcre at runtime which does break the test suite */
+#ifdef PCRE_FORCENATIVEMALLOC
+#define pcre_malloc malloc
+#define pcre_free free
+#else
 PCRE_DL_IMPORT extern void *(*pcre_malloc)(size_t);
 PCRE_DL_IMPORT extern void  (*pcre_free)(void *);
+#endif
 
 #undef PCRE_DL_IMPORT
 
--- lib_pcre/pcre.c.orig	Mon Jan  7 15:21:06 2002
+++ lib_pcre/pcre.c	Mon Nov 17 06:18:15 2003
@@ -184,8 +184,12 @@
 indirections below, which are can be changed by the caller, but are shared
 between all threads. */
 
+#ifdef PCRE_FORCENATIVEMALLOC
+/* nop */
+#else
 void *(*pcre_malloc)(size_t) = malloc;
 void  (*pcre_free)(void *) = free;
+#endif
 
 
 
Index: lib_l2/l2_ut_pcre.c
--- lib_l2/l2_ut_pcre.c.orig	2003-01-28 10:10:39.000000000 +0100
+++ lib_l2/l2_ut_pcre.c	2003-11-17 13:19:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -377,8 +377,12 @@
 #define match_condassert   0x01
 #define match_isgroup      0x02
 
-void *(*pcre_malloc) (size_t) = malloc;
-void (*pcre_free) (void *) = free;
+#ifdef PCRE_FORCENATIVEMALLOC
+/* nop */
+#else
+void *(*pcre_malloc)(size_t) = malloc;
+void  (*pcre_free)(void *) = free;
+#endif
 
 #ifndef L2_UT_PCRE_SUPPORT_UTF8
 #define GETCHARINC(c, eptr) c = *eptr++;
Index: lib_l2/l2_ut_pcre.h
--- lib_l2/l2_ut_pcre.h.orig	2002-01-11 11:36:14.000000000 +0100
+++ lib_l2/l2_ut_pcre.h	2003-11-17 13:29:07.000000000 +0100
@@ -59,8 +59,19 @@
 #define __PCRE_CONCAT(x) x
 #define PCRE_CONCAT(x,y) __PCRE_CONCAT(x)y
 #endif
+/* force usage of native malloc is a dirty hack to get
+   around "gp-relative relocation against dynamic symbol
+   pcre_(malloc|free)" problem on Alpha as reported in
+   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=kroupware&m=106849138602149. Using
+   it prevents applications from providing customized memory management
+   functions for pcre at runtime which does break the test suite */
+#ifdef PCRE_FORCENATIVEMALLOC
+#define pcre_malloc malloc
+#define pcre_free free
+#else
 #define pcre_malloc PCRE_CONCAT(PCRE_PREFIX,pcre_malloc)
 #define pcre_free PCRE_CONCAT(PCRE_PREFIX,pcre_free)
+#endif
 #define pcre_compile PCRE_CONCAT(PCRE_PREFIX,pcre_compile)
 #define pcre_copy_substring PCRE_CONCAT(PCRE_PREFIX,pcre_copy_substring)
 #define pcre_exec PCRE_CONCAT(PCRE_PREFIX,pcre_exec)
@@ -116,8 +127,12 @@
 typedef struct pcre_st pcre;
 typedef struct pcre_extra_st pcre_extra;
 
+#ifdef PCRE_FORCENATIVEMALLOC
+/* nop */
+#else
 extern void *(*pcre_malloc)(size_t);
 extern void  (*pcre_free)(void *);
+#endif
 
 extern pcre *pcre_compile(const char *, int, const char **, int *,
               const unsigned char *);