Re: [Valgrind-users] valgrind 3.4.0 fails regression tests on x86 Gutsy?

[Nicholas N. <n.n...@gm...>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Chris MacGregor
<chr...@bo...> wrote:
> Hi.  I just downloaded and built valgrind 3.4.0 on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy),
> using the system default compiler (no configure overrides), which is gcc
> 4.2.1-5ubuntu4.  The make and make install went fine, but I got a bunch
> of errors (and some core dumps) when I ran "make regtest" - see below.
>
> This is on an x86 in 32-bit mode (uname -a says "Linux cmacgreg
> 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux").
>
> I assume this is not normal/expected.  Any suggestions on what to try
> next?  (Yes, a later release of Ubuntu and/or gcc would indeed be nice,
> but that's not completely under my control.)

It is somewhat expected.  Even on the best machines, a few tests fail.
You've got more failures than is typical, but Valgrind's probably working
ok.  If you look at the *.diff files, you'll probably see with a lot of them
that there are only trivial differences between the expected and actual
output.  This is something that needs improving.

Nick