• Valgrind

Installing Valgrind

Prerequisites

Building valgrind requires the following ports to be installed:

• gmake
• autoconf
• automake

Obtaining the Valgrind source

Use the version from FreeBSD P4 repository available at //depot/projects/valgrind/...

The current P4 snapshot is also available in the FreeBSD ports collection in devel/valgrind-snapshot and devel/valgrind.

Building

sh autogen.sh
./configure
gmake
gmake install

TODO

FreeBSD tree

Valgrind src

1. Avoid to run if the procfs sysctl aren't available (currently exiting with a pretty obscure msg) printing out an adeguate error message.
2. Test more syscalls which are disabled and implement the missing ones (rfork mainly, others to come). Tested by Sandvine Incorporated: SYS_sched_get_priority_max, SYS_sched_get_priority_min, SYS_sched_rr_get_interval
3. umtx
4. Push FreeBSD changes to upstream valgrind
5. Fix exp-ptrcheck.

Links

• P4 valgrind repository

• [PATCH]: FreeBSD support for valgrind in the Valgrind bug tracker

• Valgrind port on freshports