Re: [Valgrind-users] install question: how to build for multiple architectures?

[Ashley P. <as...@pi...>]

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 09:31 +1000, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: 
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Ashley Pittman <as...@pi...> wrote:
> >
> > Unless it's been fixed in the last month the VPATH stuff is broken on
> > the HEAD, I posted a patch to make the basic build work last month but
> > there are remaining problems, the tests don't work for example.
> 
> Which is something of a showstopper... if the tests don't run, then
> the devs won't use out-of-path builds, and if the devs won't use them
> they'll be basically untested and thus permanently broken.

I'd be prepared to put the effort in to fix this if requested, the build
fix wasn't participatory tidy however so it might not be desirable.

> Since Valgrind has very little in the way of configure-time
> variability (no optimised vs. debug builds, for example) out-of-path
> builds don't seem to provide much benefit.  So AFAIK there wouldn't be
> much benefit to supporting it, other than some people like doing it.

It would certainly appear I'm the only person to ever use this.

Ashley,