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

[Russell E. O. <rowen@u.washington.edu>]

In article <200...@ac...>,
 Julian Seward <js...@ac...> wrote:

> On Thursday 14 May 2009, Russell E. Owen wrote:
> > I'm trying to install Valgrid 3.4.1 on a shared disk in such a way that
> > all of our users can use it, though we have a mix of various flavors of
> > linux box (x86 64-bit, 32-bit and AMD64).
> >
> > I assume this is the relevant section of the documentation, but I cannot
> > make heads or tails out of it:
> >
> > --- begin quote ---
> >
> > Compiling For Multiple Architectures
> > ====================================
> >
> >    You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the
> > same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their
> > own directory.  To do this, you must use a version of `make' that
> > supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'.  `cd' to the
> > directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run
> > the `configure' script.  `configure' automatically checks for the
> > source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'.
> 
> Urr, that's standard GNU boilerplate guff.  I don't know if it applies
> to us or not.

Highly confusing boilerplate (though tom fogal's reply helped clarify 
it). Fortunately I appears that I don't need it...

> Anyway (unless I misunderstand something) this should work right out
> of the box, no monkey business, no nothing.
> 
>    ./configure --prefix=/place/i/want/it/installed
>    make
>    make install
> 
> Then /place/i/want/it/installed/bin/valgrind should be able to handle
> both 32-bit and 64-bit executables.  One thing to look out for, though,
> is at the end of the ./configure run: you need to see
> 
>        Primary build target: AMD64_LINUX
>      Secondary build target: X86_LINUX
> 
> If you don't get that, then you will indeed be out of luck (w.r.t. a 
> dual-arch build.)

I did get that (or something very similar) and it seems to have built 
correctly.

Thank you very much!

-- Russell