Finding all the source packages that include a copy of valgrind.h

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Sep 12 17:38:22 UTC 2014


On 09/12/2014 05:09 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> valgrind 3.10.0 was just released and I created packages for rawhide and
> f21. Then I noticed some packages include their own copy of valgrind.h
> (at least libsecret, gcr, libgnome-keyring, realmd, ipxe and pidgin).
Not directly related to your question, but ...

Why do these packages do so and not use a global version?

What these packages are doing is similar to bundling and static linkage, 
and suffers from similar consequences, such the issues you currently are 
having.

Ralf



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