[Buildroot] Status of valgrind on powerpc

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com
Tue Nov 8 08:33:41 UTC 2011


Hi Peter,

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at uclibc.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin+buildroot at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
>  Thomas> Possible solutions?
>  Thomas> 1. Modify uClibc so that it does not depend on the linux a.out.h file,
>  Thomas> but rather provides its own definitions as eglibc does.
>  Thomas> 2. Modify the kernel so that powerpc also provides a.out.h
>
> I looked into this a few years ago, and option 2 is not an option as the
> aout stuff is old and shouldn't be used:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/15/126
>
>  Thomas> 3. Modify buildroot to state that valgrind can not be build with uClibc.
>
> 4. Fix valgrind to not include a.out.h
>
> It's not really used for much - Have you seen this thread?
>
> http://old.nabble.com/How-to-disable-the-a.out-support-of-valgrind-td29226733.html

I hadn't seen it no, but it looks indeed a good alternative solution.

I'll add it to my list, but I don't think I can look into this soon.
So, if anyone has some free time, feel free to take this over.

Best regards,
Thomas


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