Version: 3.7 SVN OS: Linux Linus changed versioning scheme a bit (2.6.xx -> 3.xx) without backward incompatible changes for userspace. ./configure fails this way: checking for a supported OS... ok (linux-gnu) checking for the kernel version... unsupported (3.0.0-rc1-00035-g79f3f61-dirty) configure: error: Valgrind works on kernels 2.4, 2.6 Reproducible: Always I've fixed it this way locally: Index: configure.in =================================================================== --- configure.in (revision 11795) +++ configure.in (working copy) @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ kernel=`uname -r` case "${kernel}" in - 2.6.*) + 2.6.*|3.*) AC_MSG_RESULT([2.6 family (${kernel})]) AC_DEFINE([KERNEL_2_6], 1, [Define to 1 if you're using Linux 2.6.x]) ;;
Thanks for the patch -- applied as r11796 on the trunk.
testing for uname -r is a pain though :-/ For instance, right now valgrind builds on Ubuntu buildds which run a stable version of Ubuntu, but build packages for the development series; builds of valgrind will break for older Ubuntu releases when the buildds are upgraded to newer kernels (to a new Ubuntu stable release). This is also bad for cross-builds (albeit I don't know whether it's supported at all). This should be a runtime check instead, or specific features that valgrind cares about should be tested directly rather than using the version proxied-information.