Little valgrind issue

[Garrett Cooper]

On May 7, 2008, at 4:04 AM, Andrew W. Nosenko wrote:

> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Gé Weijers <ge at weijers.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I tried to build 'valgrind' in a jail environment. The Makefile  
>> tries to
>> make sure that /proc is mounted before it build valgrind, which is  
>> fine, but
>> the way it does it won't work in a jail because /sbin/mount does  
>> not show
>> anything useful.
>>
>> A quick workaround: define the environment variable  
>> 'PACKAGE_BUILDING=yes'
>> and then run 'make' and 'make install'
>>
>> It would be better if the Makefile would just look for, say, the  
>> existence
>> of '/proc/curproc' in stead of relying on /sbin/mount.
>>
>
> I'm very surprised.  Just because unable to build valgring at all
> since FreeBSD-7.0... :-(  (New threading implementation related
> issue?)
>
> -- 
> Andrew W. Nosenko <andrew.w.nosenko at gmail.com>

... or because of the new compiler and its relevant libc link-ins?
-Garrett