[ 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
