[Valgrind-users] make dies: " /usr/bin/ar: libcoregrind_amd64_linux_a-m_cpuid.o: No such file or directory"

[Robert E F. <bfa...@ra...>]

Hi all,

First let me say, I tried to look at the mail list archives first but after
waiting 8 hours for the page to load, gave up.

I am trying to do a "no root access" compile and install on a RHEL6
machine. I downloaded the 3.10.1 tarball,
% tar -xaf valgrind-3.10.1.tar.bz2
% cd valgrind-3.10.1
% ./configure --prefix=/home/name/bin
% make
<<error as shown in subject line>>

I went back through the log and found where it should have created the
object file in question. I saw that the gcc command was proceeded by
"compile" command which describes itself as a script to be used if the
compiler does not support "-c -o" options. I thought gcc did, so this was
bizarre. When I ran either the "compile gcc" command or the "gcc" by itself
with the rest of the command line copied from the log, I got mismatched ".
error I thought it was odd that the file names in double-quotes were
preceded by double-quote, backslash, double-quote which would put the
escaped double-quote inside the quoted string, but at the end it had the
same thing which puts the escaped double-quote outside the quoted string. I
tried to fool around with double quotes generation in the Makefile, but
could not get something that worked. I could get the file to compile if I
manually replaced the double-quote, backslash, double-quote occurrences
with just double-quote.

How should I proceed?

Thanks,
Bob