Re: valgrind-tests.m4

[Ben Pfaff]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm running self-tests under valgrind in several projects, and it seems
> like a general useful thing, so how about putting the macro for this in
> gnulib?

It looks like this implementation requires rerunning "configure"
to run tests under valgrind.  If that's right, it seems
inconvenient.  I've used different approaches in my own projects
so that this is not required:

        * In GNU PSPP, which mostly uses the built-in Automake
          test framework, the invocations of the test programs
          are all through shell scripts.  Each invocation of a
          test program is preceded by $SUPERVISOR,
          e.g. "$SUPERVISOR pspp ...".  Then running "make check"
          runs without valgrind; running "make check
          SUPERVISOR='libtool --mode=execute valgrind'" runs with
          valgrind; and so on.  (Sometimes 'libtool
          --mode=execute gdb --args' is handy.)

        * In Open vSwitch, which uses Autotest, I added a
          "check-valgrind" target that generates a collection of
          wrapper scripts, one for each program to be tested, and
          puts them at the head of $PATH, so that the test suite
          automatically uses valgrind every time it invokes
          valgrind.
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