[Valgrind-users] Valgrind RH RPM packages for RH62, RH72, RH80 and RH9

[Dag W. <da...@wi...>]

Hi,

I'm building valgrind for several versions of the Red Hat distribution.=20
You can find these packages at:

	http://dag.wieers.com/packages/valgrind/

Or have them installed automatically using apt as described on:

	http://dag.wieers.com/apt/


The RH9 package is build on a clean RH9 by doing 'unset CFLAGS' as=20
described in RH BugZilla #88846. make was not updated.


I also included a small C program that would check if NPTL threading was=20
supported (at runtime). But I superseded that with using getconf directly=
.=20
(This works on all distributions and is much cleaner.)

Using getconf was advised on a mailinglist somewhere (I can't remember=20
where exactly I read that.) However I have the source of the small C=20
program still in my SPEC file for educational purposes.)

It would be nice though if valgrind could check for itself if NPTL=20
threading is supported at loadtime ? Or at least take over my changes to=20
coregrind/valgrind.in so that it is check in runtime (instead of checking=
=20
at compile-time)

You can do this by doing:

perl -pi.orig -e 's|^nptl_threading=3D.*$|nptl_threading=3D"$(if getconf =
GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION &>/dev/null; then echo "yes"; else echo "no"; fi)"=
|' coregrind/valgrind.in


PS These packages still have a problem with some private GLIBC symbols=20
that are in the dependencies of the package. I can't seem to fix this by=20
doing:

	%define __find_provides() /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides %* | grep -v '^libp=
thread.so'
	%define __find_requires() /usr/lib/rpm/find-requires %* | grep -v 'libc.=
so.6(GLIBC_PRIVATE)'

So unless I find a clean way of doing this, you might have to install wit=
h=20
--nodeps on some RH's (RH80 and RH73 afaik).

PS2 I'm not subscribed, please put me in CC if you have any remarks.

Kind regards,
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