* move some system-initialization to mu_util_init_system;

set G_SLICE env far to always-malloc on FreeBSD, as g_slice does not work
  correctly there.

src/mu-util.c

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/*
+/* 
 ** Copyright (C) 2010 Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>
 **
 ** This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -22,12 +22,14 @@
 
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
+#include <locale.h> /* for setlocale() */
 
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 
+#include <glib-object.h>
 #include <glib/gstdio.h>
 #include <errno.h>
 
@@ -66,6 +68,28 @@ mu_util_dir_expand (const char *path)
 	return dir;
 }
 
+gboolean
+mu_util_init_system (void)
+{
+	/* without setlocale, non-ascii cmdline params (like search
+	 * terms) won't work */
+	setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
+
+	/* on FreeBSD, it seems g_slice_new and friends lead to
+	 * segfaults. So we shut if off */
+#ifdef 	__FreeBSD__
+	if (!g_setenv ("G_SLICE", "always-malloc", TRUE)) {
+		g_critical ("cannot set G_SLICE");
+		return FALSE;
+	}
+	MU_LOG_FILE("setting G_SLICE to always-malloc");
+#endif /*__FreeBSD__*/
+
+	g_type_init ();
+
+	return TRUE;
+}
+
 
 gboolean
 mu_util_check_dir (const gchar* path, gboolean readable, gboolean writeable)