Testing valgrind in rawhide (separate valgrind-debuginfo package)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 02:15:30PM +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for some valgrind users that want to try out the latest
> valgrind package in rawhide.
> 
> If you use valgrind please try out the new valgrind-3.8.1-10.fc19
> version in rawhide. It is the first version that puts the debuginfo in a
> separate valgrind-debuginfo package (this saves ~35MB from the main
> packages). http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=399059
> 
> Upstream used to recommend against stripping debuginfo from the valgrind
> vg preload libraries because it produced less usable warning/error
> messages. But since a long time now valgrind intercepts are done in a
> different way and just having the dynsym symbols around should be
> enough.
> 
> Please let me know (or file a bug report) if using the new valgrind
> package from rawhide gives less useful warnings/errors (and whether
> installing valgrind-debuginfo solves any of such issues).

I tested valgrind-3.8.1-10.fc19.x86_64 (without valgrind-debuginfo).
It appears to work fine.  There's no noticable difference between this
version and earlier versions.

Rich.

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