Make "make check" abort on memory leaks or errors

[Steffen Dettmer]

Hi,

I have s small C++ test project using autoconf, automake and CppUnit.
I like to check for memory errors, starting with memory leaks.
I started with "./configure CXXFLAGS=-fsanitize=address", which
detects some memory errors (e.g. use-after-delete), but no memory
leaks.

After searching the web for a while, I thougt to fall-back to valgrind
using "make check TESTS_ENVIRONMENT=valgrind". Althrough "valgrind
./mytestrunner" works (test program aborts because of memory leak),
"make check TESTS_ENVIRONMENT=valgrind" does not work, it errnously
returns status 0, no memory errors are reported. Maybe valgrind
checked the automatically generated automake "test-driver" script for
memory leaks?

Since I assume checking memory usage errors is a coomon requirement, I
think there could be a common solution, but I failed to find it. Could
anyone please advice how to check for memory leaks?

A pragma solution specific/limited to g++ (4.8) on Linux (e.g. Lubuntu
14.04) without libtool would be sufficient.

Regards,
Steffen