Bug 275278

Summary:	valgrind does not build on Linux kernel 3.0.* due to silly configure check
Product:	[Developer tools] valgrind	Reporter:	Matěj Laitl <matej>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Julian Seward <jseward>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	tom
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	3.6.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Matěj Laitl 2011-06-09 13:10:09 UTC

Version:           3.6.0
OS:                Linux

Running ./configure for valgrind 3.6.1 on Linux kernel 3.0-rc1:

checking for the kernel version... unsupported (3.0.0-rc1-00049-g1fa7b6a)
configure: error: Valgrind works on kernels 2.4, 2.6

And the build fails. I think the kernel version check shouldn't even be there as kernel used for compiling valgrind need not to be the same used for running it (think of cross-compiling etc.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run 3.0* kernel
2. Try to build valgrind

Actual Results:  
Build fails.

Expected Results:  
Valgrind builds regardless of build host kernel version.

Comment 1 Tom Hughes 2011-06-09 13:26:33 UTC

This was fixed four days ago in r11796.

Comment 2 Matěj Laitl 2011-06-09 15:19:01 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> This was fixed four days ago in r11796.

Ah, sorry and thanks, I should have checked svn first.