Re: [Valgrind-users] Help to compile the source

[Brad H. <br...@fr...>]

On Sunday 14 March 2010 08:29:44 am Rene Gonzalez wrote:
> I all,
Hi Rene,

> I just started to use valgrid so pull down the source tabal and following
> instruction in README I found
> that the command ./autogen.sh line is not coming in such tarbal so if any
> one can let me know
> where can get the absent autogen.sh bash file?

I guess you're using the 3.5.0 release (from 
http://www.valgrind.org/downloads/current.html). The README file says:

Building and installing it
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To install from the Subversion repository :

  0. Check out the code from SVN, following the instructions at
     http://www.valgrind.org/downloads/repository.html.

  1. cd into the source directory.

  2. Run ./autogen.sh to setup the environment (you need the standard
     autoconf tools to do so).

  3. Continue with the following instructions...

To install from a tar.bz2 distribution:

  4. Run ./configure, with some options if you wish.  The only interesting
     one is the usual --prefix=/where/you/want/it/installed.

  5. Run "make".

  6. Run "make install", possibly as root if the destination permissions
     require that.

  7. See if it works.  Try "valgrind ls -l".  Either this works, or it
     bombs out with some complaint.  In that case, please let us know
     (see www.valgrind.org).

So there are two parts. A tarball isn't a Subversion respository, so you need 
to follow the instructions for "To install from a tar.bz2 distribution", 
starting at step 4.
 
> Also I like to know If this have been compiled before for ARM platform?
> If yes please let me know how to do it.

Again from http://www.valgrind.org/downloads/current.html:
"This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, PPC32/Linux, PPC64/Linux and 
X86/Darwin (Mac OS X)." There is some work being done on ARM, but I don't 
think it is present in the 3.5.0 release. You'd need to be running a 
subversion trunk release, and that may still have issues.

Brad