Set USE_JEMALLOC=OFF by default due to incompatibility with jemalloc 5 (

#17324) As of jemalloc 5, jemalloc default build can not be used in libraries that are dlopened. However, libmxnet.so is dlopened by Python (ctypes). To use MXNet with jemalloc 5, users must not link to system libjemalloc.so but must rather link to a libjemalloc compiled with DISABLE_INITIAL_EXEC_TLS
apache · Jan 20, 2020 · 425319c · 425319c
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diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ else()
   option(USE_OPERATOR_TUNING  "Enable auto-tuning of operators" OFF)
 endif()
 option(USE_GPERFTOOLS "Build with GPerfTools support" OFF)
-option(USE_JEMALLOC "Build with Jemalloc support"   ON)
+option(USE_JEMALLOC "Build with Jemalloc support" OFF)
 option(USE_DIST_KVSTORE "Build with DIST_KVSTORE support" OFF)
 option(USE_PLUGINS_WARPCTC "Use WARPCTC Plugins" OFF)
 option(USE_PLUGIN_CAFFE "Use Caffe Plugin" OFF)

diff --git a/make/config.mk b/make/config.mk
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ USE_GPERFTOOLS_PATH =
 USE_GPERFTOOLS_STATIC =
 
 # Use JEMalloc if found, and not using gperftools
-USE_JEMALLOC = 1
+USE_JEMALLOC = 0
 
 # path to jemalloc library in case of a non-standard installation
 USE_JEMALLOC_PATH =