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Bug 466384 - dev-util/valgrind : wrongly complains about glibc splitdebug symbols
Summary: dev-util/valgrind : wrongly complains about glibc splitdebug symbols
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Development (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Anthony Basile
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Reported: 2013-04-18 16:32 UTC by Toralf Förster
Modified: 2013-04-19 12:13 UTC (History)
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Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev 2013-04-18 16:32:39 UTC 
Although glibc is compiled with it :

$ grep glibc /etc/portage/package.env
sys-libs/glibc                  splitdebug

the ebuild gives a warning:

WARN: postinst
Valgrind will not work if glibc does not have debug symbols.
To fix this you can add splitdebug to FEATURES in make.conf
and remerge glibc.  See:
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-04-18 16:49:54 UTC 
Maybe einfo instead of ewarn? It's difficult to actually check whether -g and splitdebug are enabled.
Comment 2 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev 2013-04-18 16:56:12 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Maybe einfo instead of ewarn? 
yep - at least would not confuse the user.
Comment 3 Anthony Basile gentoo-dev 2013-04-19 12:13:27 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Maybe einfo instead of ewarn? 
> yep - at least would not confuse the user.

Okay, I did that, but I feel uneasy about it because the unsuspecting user may not look in their logs.  If got a feeling I'm going to be reverting this sometime in the near future.