Re: [Valgrind-users] Compile Valgrind 1.9.6 on Red Hat 9

[Dan K. <da...@ke...>]

Richard Ruth wrote:
> Although I can compile Valgrind on RH7.3 and RH8.0, on
> Red Hat 9 I am getting the following error (both with
> the Red Hat supplied gcc 3.2.2 and the gcc 3.2.3 that
> I built):
> ...
> make: expand.c:489: allocated_variable_append:
> Assertion `current_variable_set_list->next != 0' fail
> ed.

> Any ideas on how to fix this Assertion failure?

google says:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2002-02/msg00056.html

Sure enough, rh9 uses the version of make that report talks
about.  And, bonus deal, it's in their bug tracking system; one
of the hits there even has an easy workaround for you.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89206
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88846

> ------- Additional Comment #1 From Miloslav Trmac on 2003-04-15 08:42 -------
> 
> Workaround when building valgrind:
> instead of just
>      make
> doing
>      env - PATH="$PATH" make
> caused this failure to go away. I haven't been able to find out which
> environment variable was the culprit though.
> ------- Additional Comment #2 From Enrico Scholz on 2003-04-15 09:29 -------
> 
> CPATH is guilty...

Hope that helps.
- Dan

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