Re: [Valgrind-users] Valgrind requires sudo for running on Mac OS X

[John R. <jr...@bi...>]

> I recently compiled and installed valgrind 3.6.0 on Mac OS X 10.6.4
> via. I did: './configure; ./make' and then I had to do 'sudo ./make
> install' because  just './make install' was giving some errors. Now I
> need to execute use it via 'sudo valgrind myprogram', because using
> 'valgrind myprogram' without sudo will give the errors below.
> 
> 53585-- WARNING: Serious error when reading debug info
> --53585-- When reading debug info from
> /usr/local/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_core-amd64-darwin.so:
> --53585-- Can't open image to read symbols?!
[snip]

Run a Terminal (Finder > Go > Utilities > Terminal) and change the
file permission bits:

$ sudo chmod a+rx  $( find /usr/local/lib/valgrind -name '*.so' )

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