On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Phil Sanders<ppjs...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> I am trying to build and use valgrind 4.3.1 on a Cell BE-based system and I
> am having a few problems. I built and configured with no options other than
> --prefix. It configures/makes/installs without problems, but I am having
> the following issues. Any tips and suggestions about what to do would be
> appreciated. Has anybody successfully tried this?
>
> 1) The shared library backtraces only say (within .....). If I switch back
> to the 3.3 version installed on the system using the same executable and
> libraries, I get meaningful backtrace entries

It might be a good idea to add yourself to the CC list of
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190820.

> 2) I get errors through the dl libraries -- Maybe I just need to manually
> suppress them?

Suppressions for the dl libraries should be added to Valgrind's
default suppression list IMHO.

> 3) many valgrind regresssion test failures (== 383 tests, 42 stderr
> failures, 11 stdout failures, 0 post failures ==)

Not all regression tests do already pass on PPC -- more work is needed
in this area. The output you got is close to the results of the latest
nightly build on a Cell BE system -- see also
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20090605111553.GA17495%40cell-user.cell.buzz&forum_name=valgrind-developers.

Bart.

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