Bug 250570 – [PATCH] dev-util/valgrind - ./configure fails with glibc-2.9

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Bartosz Szreder 2008-12-10 22:28:53 UTC]

emerge valgrind fails at ./configure with the following message:

checking the libc version... unsupported version
configure: error: Valgrind requires glibc version 2.2 - 2.7

My glibc:

Ebola ~ # /lib/libc.so.6 | head -n 1
GNU C Library stable release version 2.9, by Roland McGrath et al.

The error message is actually wrong: looking at configure.in showed, that glibc 2.8 _IS_ supported by valgrind, despite showing the need for 2.2 - 2.7.

The following patch fixes configure.in and adds additional glibc-2.9 support file. Valgrind compiles fine and works without problems - in fact it's possible to downgrade glibc to satisfying version, emerge valgrind, upgrade glibc and it works like charm.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge ">=glibc-2.9"
2. emerge valgrind

[Comment 1 Bartosz Szreder 2008-12-10 22:31:17 UTC]

Created attachment 174914 [details]
configure.in patch

[Comment 2 Bartosz Szreder 2008-12-10 22:32:23 UTC]

Created attachment 174915 [details, diff]
glibc-2.9 support file

[Comment 3 Maurice van der Pot (RETIRED) 2008-12-13 10:58:09 UTC]

Added to portage. Thanks for the patch!

[Comment 4 Maurice van der Pot (RETIRED) 2008-12-15 18:44:14 UTC]

*** Bug 250959 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2008-12-15 18:45:22 UTC]

Duh and I even checked and missed this one. Well okay, let's add the blocker ;)