Re: valgrind-tests.m4

[Ralf Wildenhues]

[ adding bug-libtool ]

* Bruno Haible wrote on Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:12:08AM CEST:
> Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > my patch invokes valgrind with -q so that it does not
> > output anything, unless there are errors, of course
> 
> Oh, I see. Indeed.
> 
> But it spends a lot of time in "make check", and does not exploit the full
> information that valgrind could provide. For a test, I ran "make check"
> in gettext/gettext-tools/tests,
> * With --enable-shared and libtool wrappers:
>   - without valgrind:                                                 105 sec.
>   - with valgrind -q for just the sh that runs the test:             1191 sec.
>   - with valgrind -q for just the sh that runs the libtool wrappers: 6457 sec.
> * Without libtool wrappers:
>   - without valgrind:                                                  42 sec.
>   - with valgrind -q for just the programs:                          2147 sec.

That's quite bad.  Maybe libtool should have a way to use valgrind only
on the "interesting" executable, not the rest of any wrappers, or the
libtool script, for efficiency reasons.

Thanks for the report.

Cheers,
Ralf