From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:32:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] valgrind: do not require valgrind 3.4.0 or newer
Message-ID: <7vzlh0bp6f.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <b204f01577584835f1c0252c77ffbfab33442a79.1233858507u.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Valgrind 3.4.0 is pretty new, and even if --track-origins is a nice
> feature, it is not the end of the world if that is not available.  So
> play nice and use that option only when only an older version of
> valgrind is available.

s/older/newer/?

> +TRACK_ORIGINS=
> +case "$(valgrind --version)" in
> +valgrind-{3.[4-9],3.[1-3][0-9],[4-9],[1-3][0-9]}*)
> +	TRACK_ORIGINS=--track-origins=yes
> +esac

What kind of case pattern is that?