Re: [Valgrind-users] problems running valgrind

[Tom H. <to...@co...>]

Daniel wrote:

> I just installed valgrind, and I am getting the following message when  
> I attempt to run it:
> 
> 	valgrind: failed to start tool 'memcheck' for platform 'amd64-linux':  
> No such file or directory
> 
> But, memcheck exists and is in the path.  (I added /usr/local/lib/ 
> valgrind/amd64-linux to the path after first seeing this error, in an  
> attempt to resolve it.)

Altering the path will do nothing - the path used to load the tools is 
fixed at build time so you must put them in the location specified when 
valgrind was configured (ie in $prefix/lib/valgrind typically).

Tom

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