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Greetings, packaging person! This information is aimed at people<br>
building binary distributions of Valgrind.<br>
<br>
Thanks for taking the time and effort to make a binary distribution of<br>
Valgrind. The following notes may save you some trouble.<br>
<br>
<br>
-- Do not ship your Linux distro with a completely stripped<br>
/lib/ld.so. At least leave the debugging symbol names on -- line<br>
number info isn't necessary. If you don't want to leave symbols on<br>
ld.so, alternatively you can have your distro install ld.so's<br>
debuginfo package by default, or make ld.so.debuginfo be a<br>
requirement of your Valgrind RPM/DEB/whatever.<br>
<br>
Reason for this is that Valgrind's Memcheck tool needs to intercept<br>
calls to, and provide replacements for, some symbols in ld.so at<br>
startup (most importantly strlen). If it cannot do that, Memcheck<br>
shows a large number of false positives due to the highly optimised<br>
strlen (etc) routines in ld.so. This has caused some trouble in<br>
the past. As of version 3.3.0, on some targets (ppc32-linux,<br>
ppc64-linux), Memcheck will simply stop at startup (and print an<br>
error message) if such symbols are not present, because it is<br>
infeasible to continue.<br>
<br>
It's not like this is going to cost you much space. We only need<br>
the symbols for ld.so (a few K at most). Not the debug info and<br>
not any debuginfo or extra symbols for any other libraries.<br>
<br>
<br>
-- (Unfortunate but true) When you configure to build with the <br>
--prefix=/foo/bar/xyzzy option, the prefix /foo/bar/xyzzy gets<br>
baked into valgrind. The consequence is that you _must_ install<br>
valgrind at the location specified in the prefix. If you don't,<br>
it may appear to work, but will break doing some obscure things,<br>
particularly doing fork() and exec().<br>
<br>
So you can't build a relocatable RPM / whatever from Valgrind.<br>
<br>
<br>
-- Don't strip the debug info off lib/valgrind/$platform/vgpreload*.so<br>
in the installation tree. Either Valgrind won't work at all, or it<br>
will still work if you do, but will generate less helpful error<br>
messages. Here's an example:<br>
<br>
Mismatched free() / delete / delete []<br>
at 0x40043249: free (vg_clientfuncs.c:171)<br>
by 0x4102BB4E: QGArray::~QGArray(void) (tools/qgarray.cpp:149)<br>
by 0x4C261C41: PptDoc::~PptDoc(void) (include/qmemarray.h:60)<br>
by 0x4C261F0E: PptXml::~PptXml(void) (pptxml.cc:44)<br>
Address 0x4BB292A8 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 64 alloc'd<br>
at 0x4004318C: __builtin_vec_new (vg_clientfuncs.c:152)<br>
by 0x4C21BC15: KLaola::readSBStream(int) const (klaola.cc:314)<br>
by 0x4C21C155: KLaola::stream(KLaola::OLENode const *) (klaola.cc:416)<br>
by 0x4C21788F: OLEFilter::convert(QCString const &) (olefilter.cc:272)<br>
<br>
This tells you that some memory allocated with new[] was freed with<br>
free().<br>
<br>
Mismatched free() / delete / delete []<br>
at 0x40043249: (inside vgpreload_memcheck.so)<br>
by 0x4102BB4E: QGArray::~QGArray(void) (tools/qgarray.cpp:149)<br>
by 0x4C261C41: PptDoc::~PptDoc(void) (include/qmemarray.h:60)<br>
by 0x4C261F0E: PptXml::~PptXml(void) (pptxml.cc:44)<br>
Address 0x4BB292A8 is 0 bytes inside a block of size 64 alloc'd<br>
at 0x4004318C: (inside vgpreload_memcheck.so)<br>
by 0x4C21BC15: KLaola::readSBStream(int) const (klaola.cc:314)<br>
by 0x4C21C155: KLaola::stream(KLaola::OLENode const *) (klaola.cc:416)<br>
by 0x4C21788F: OLEFilter::convert(QCString const &) (olefilter.cc:272)<br>
<br>
This isn't so helpful. Although you can tell there is a mismatch, <br>
the names of the allocating and deallocating functions are no longer<br>
visible. The same kind of thing occurs in various other messages <br>
from valgrind.<br>
<br>
<br>
-- Don't strip symbols from lib/valgrind/* in the installation tree.<br>
Doing so will likely cause problems. Removing the line number info is<br>
probably OK (at least for some of the files in that directory), although<br>
that has not been tested by the Valgrind developers.<br>
<br>
<br>
-- Please test the final installation works by running it on something<br>
huge. I suggest checking that it can start and exit successfully<br>
both Firefox and OpenOffice.org. I use these as test programs, and I<br>
know they fairly thoroughly exercise Valgrind. The command lines to use<br>
are:<br>
<br>
valgrind -v --trace-children=yes firefox<br>
<br>
valgrind -v --trace-children=yes soffice<br>
<br>
<br>
If you find any more hints/tips for packaging, please report<br>
it as a bugreport. See http://www.valgrind.org for details.<br>
<br>
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