Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> writes: > Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> writes: > >> Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> writes: >> >>> Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> 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 don't think that is right -- configure will detect valgrind if >> available and setup the variable. Depending on how the maintainer set >> things up, tests will be run under valgrind by default. To run self >> checks without valgrind temporarily, just do 'make check VALGRIND='. >> There is no need to rerun configure. > > Thanks for the explanation. At a glance, I had the impression > that to run the tests with valgrind I had to rerun configure with > --enable-valgrind.
Nope, it is only for --disable-valgrind-tests, for those people who want to disable use of valgrind unconditionally (people have asked for it so I added it). /Simon
