source: general/prog/valgrind.xml@ 05374c3

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY valgrind-download-http "https://sourceware.org/pub/valgrind/valgrind-&valgrind-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY valgrind-download-ftp  "ftp://sourceware.org/pub/valgrind/valgrind-&valgrind-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY valgrind-md5sum        "b8b89b327732c12191306c3d31cfd4b1">
  <!ENTITY valgrind-size          "17 MB">
  <!ENTITY valgrind-buildsize     "388 MB (add 66 MB for tests)">
  <!ENTITY valgrind-time          "0.5 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 8.4 SBU for tests)">
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<sect1 id="valgrind" xreflabel="Valgrind-&valgrind-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="valgrind.html"?>


  <title>Valgrind-&valgrind-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="valgrind">
    <primary sortas="a-Valgrind">Valgrind</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Valgrind</title>

    <para>
      <application>Valgrind</application> is an instrumentation framework for
      building dynamic analysis tools. There are Valgrind tools that can
      automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, and
      profile programs in detail. Valgrind can also be used to build new
      tools.
    </para>

    &lfs113_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&valgrind-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&valgrind-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &valgrind-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &valgrind-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &valgrind-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &valgrind-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
<!--
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Required patch:
          <ulink url="&patch-root;/valgrind-&valgrind-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
-->
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Valgrind Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="gdb"/> (for tests),
      <xref linkend="llvm"/> (with Clang), and
      <xref linkend="which"/> (for tests)
    </para>

<!-- See "maintainer note", below
    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional for regenerating the documentation</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="libxslt"/> and
      <xref linkend="texlive"/> (or <xref linkend="tl-installer"/>)
    </para>
-->
    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/valgrind"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Valgrind</title>
<!--
    <para>
      First, make several changes that are required for Valgrind to function on
      systems with glibc-2.35 installed:
    </para>

<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../valgrind-&valgrind-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch</userinput></screen>
-->

    <para>
      Install <application>Valgrind</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i 's|/doc/valgrind||' docs/Makefile.in &amp;&amp;

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --datadir=/usr/share/doc/valgrind-&valgrind-version; &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make regtest</command>. The tests
      may hang forever if <xref linkend="gdb"/> is not installed. Some tests
      are known to hang also, depending on the version of glibc. A few tests
      can fail in various suites. Problematic
      tests can be disabled by changing the <userinput>prereq:</userinput> line
      in the corresponding <filename>.vgtest</filename> file to
      <userinput>prereq: false</userinput>. For example:
    </para>

<screen role="nodump"><userinput>sed -e 's@prereq:.*@prereq: false@' \
    -i {helgrind,drd}/tests/pth_cond_destroy_busy.vgtest</userinput></screen>

    <!-- 731 tests, 6 stderr failures, 0 stdout failures, 1 stderrB failure,
         0 stdoutB failures, 1 post failure -bdubbs Apr 13. 22
         valgrind-3.19.0

         732 tests, 4 stderr failures, 0 stdout failures, 1 stderrB failure,
         0 stdoutB failures, 1 post failure - bdubbs Oct 26, 22
           gdbserver_tests/hginfo                   (stderrB)
           memcheck/tests/cdebug_zlib_gnu           (stderr)
           memcheck/tests/overlap                   (stderr)
           helgrind/tests/tls_threads               (stderr)
           drd/tests/pth_mutex_signal               (stderr) 

         765 tests, 2 stderr failures, 0 stdout failures, 0 stderrB failure,
         0 stdoutB failures, 0 post failure -bdubbs May 2, 23
         valgrind-3.21.0
           memcheck/tests/overlap                   (stderr)
           helgrind/tests/pth_mempcpy_false_races   (stderr) -->

    <note>
      <para>
        The <application>OpenMP</application> tests are skipped if libgomp
        has been compiled with <option>--enable-linux-futex</option> (the
        default). If needed, just recompile the libgomp library from
        the gcc build tree, passing <option>--disable-linux-futex</option>
        to configure, storing the library to some place and changing the link
        from <filename>/usr/lib/libgomp.so.1</filename> to point to the new
        library.
      </para>
    </note>

<!--  Note to maintainer: there is a long thread in ticket #5882 explaining
      why we do not provide instructions to rebuild the documentation.
      (still broken with TeXLive 2016) -->

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <command>sed -i ... docs/Makefile.in </command>: This sed provides for
      installing the documentation in a versioned directory.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--enable-lto=yes</option>: This option allows building Valgrind
      with LTO (link time optimization).  This produces a smaller/faster
      Valgrind (up to 10%), but build time increases to about 5.5 SBU.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          callgrind_annotate,
          callgrind_control,
          cg_annotate,
          cg_diff,
          cg_merge,
          ms_print,
          valgrind,
          valgrind-di-server,
          valgrind-listener, and
          vgdb
        </seg>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/lib/valgrind,
          /usr/libexec/valgrind,
          /usr/include/valgrind, and
          /usr/share/doc/valgrind-&valgrind-version;
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="valgrind-prog">
        <term><command>valgrind</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a program for debugging and profiling Linux executables
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="valgrind valgrind-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-valgrind">valgrind</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="callgrind_annotate">
        <term><command>callgrind_annotate</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            takes an output file produced by the
            <application>Valgrind</application> tool Callgrind and prints the
            information in an easy-to-read form
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="valgrind callgrind_annotate">
            <primary sortas="b-callgrind_annotate">callgrind_annotate</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="callgrind_control">
        <term><command>callgrind_control</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            controls programs being run by the <application>Valgrind</application>
            tool Callgrind
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="valgrind callgrind_control">
            <primary sortas="b-callgrind_control">callgrind_control</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="cg_annotate">
        <term><command>cg_annotate</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a post-processing tool for the <application>Valgrind</application>
            tool Cachegrind
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="valgrind cg_annotate">
            <primary sortas="b-cg_annotate">cg_annotate</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="cg_diff">
        <term><command>cg_diff</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            compares two Cachegrind output files
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="valgrind cg_diff">
            <primary sortas="b-cg_diff">cg_diff</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="cg_merge">
        <term><command>cg_merge</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            merges multiple Cachegrind output files into one
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="valgrind cg_merge">
            <primary sortas="b-cg_merge">cg_merge</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="ms_print">
        <term><command>ms_print</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            takes an output file produced by the <application>Valgrind</application>
            tool Massif and prints the information in an easy-to-read form
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="valgrind ms_print">
            <primary sortas="b-ms_print">ms_print</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="valgrind-di-server">
        <term><command>valgrind-di-server</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a server that reads debuginfo from objects stored on a
            different machine
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="valgrind valgrind-di-server">
            <primary sortas="b-valgrind-di-server">valgrind-di-server</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="valgrind-listener">
        <term><command>valgrind-listener</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            listens on a socket for Valgrind commentary
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="valgrind valgrind-listener">
            <primary sortas="b-valgrind-listener">valgrind-listener</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="vgdb">
        <term><command>vgdb</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is an intermediary between Valgrind and GDB or a shell
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="valgrind vgdb">
            <primary sortas="b-vgdb">vgdb</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>