Bug 299735

Summary:	Valgrind incompatibility with stripped glibc
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Hendrik Beijeman <hb>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Maurice van der Pot (RETIRED) <griffon26>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Hendrik Beijeman 2010-01-05 11:34:05 UTC

valgrind needs debug symbols for libdl

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




Fix: emerge glibc with FEATURES="splitdebug"
Suggest a note for valgrind recommending this.

Comment 1 Maurice van der Pot (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-01-06 21:33:39 UTC

It's already there:

        ewarn "Valgrind will not work on ppc, ppc64 or amd64 if glibc does not have"
        ewarn "debug symbols (see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214065"
        ewarn "and http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274771)."
        ewarn "To fix this you can add splitdebug to FEATURES in make.conf and"
        ewarn "remerge glibc."