Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Building Valgrind Without Root

Word on the street is that support for debugging Wine using Valgrind has continued to increase over the past year. I decided to give Valgrind another whirl and see what I can find. I'm currently working away from home on a computer that I don't have admin privileges on and that made the Valgrind build a little more exciting.

$ sh autogen.sh

aclocal: configure.in: 58: macro `AM_PROG_CC_C_O' not found in library

Bummer. Valgrind requires a recent version of autotools. The distribution that I'm running on uses a default of automake-1.4 and aclocal-1.4 as specified in /etc/alternatives. Fortunately, 1.9 versions of both tools are installed. Some quick symbolic links to a ~/local/bin and a redefine of my path cleared up those problems and I was good to go.

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