Re: How do I run tests under Valgrind?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 17, 2012, 17:35 UTC
Message-ID: <20120917173531.GB1179@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CALkWK0m378ApSwa1xiYUqEjMny5m0wt3KacqdDRU1qt=cw6k8g@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:53:18PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

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> Hi Peff,
> 
> Jeff King wrote:
> > No, that should work (and it does work here). I assume you can pass
> > t0000 without --valgrind?
> 
> Yes.  Here's the output from running it with --valgrind.  I'm digging
> deeper to see what went wrong.
> 
> make_valgrind_symlink:6: permission denied:
> /home/artagnon/src/git/t/../git-instaweb
> ./test-lib.sh:487: no matches found:
> /home/artagnon/svn/prefix/svn-trunk/bin:/home/artagnon/bin:/home/artagnon/bin/depot_tools:/home/artagnon/.ruby/bin:/home/artagnon/.python/bin:/home/artagnon/.cabal/bin:/home/artagnon/svn/prefix/svn-trunk/bin:/home/artagnon/bin:/home/artagnon/bin/depot_tools:/home/artagnon/.ruby/bin:/home/artagnon/.python/bin:/home/artagnon/.cabal/bin:/home/artagnon/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/artagnon/.ec2/bin:/home/artagnon/.ec2/bin/git-*

That's certainly odd. It sounds like the valgrind setup is broken for you. Can you run:

  sh -x t0000-basic.sh --valgrind

and see what's happening near those weird errors?

> test_cmp:1: command not found: diff -u

Lack of diff is going to be a problem. What OS is this? Do you really not have diff? Or is there something funny going on with your PATH?

-Peff