On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Thomas Van Lenten <thoma...@chromium.org>wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:04 PM, John Abd-El-Malek <j...@chromium.org>wrote:
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>> I have a leak after a check-in.  I tried following the instructions on my
>> Linux box, but couldn't (I hardly develop on Linux).
>>
>> jabdelma...@jabdelmalek:/usr/local/google/chrome/src$ sh
>> tools/valgrind/chrome_tests.sh  --generate_suppressions -t ui
>> Usage: chrome_tests.py -b <dir> -t <test> [-t <test> ...]
>>
>> chrome_tests.py: error: no such option: --generate_suppressions
>>
>>
>> I had tried to follow the getting started instructions in installing and
>> building valgrind from source so that it works in ui_tests, but the first
>> line fails for me:
>>
>> jabdelma...@jabdelmalek:/usr/local/google/chrome/src$ sh autogen.sh
>> sh: autogen.sh: No such file or directory
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>
> Did you checkout the valgrind source into this dir?  The directions you're
> starting with are talking about building it in the directory you downloaded
> the source too.
>

I just followed the Getting Started instructions under Linux.  Perhaps the
instructions need to call out where to get the source from (i.e. the ones
there are incomplete).


>
> In a lot of cases, simply by looking at the data from the bots you can see
> what the leak is likely to be to fix it without having to run locally.  When
> you do need to run it under valgrind, the stdio log from the bot can help
> give you the command line the bot is using which you can then start with
> locally.
>

But as per my first problem, I couldn't even do that.


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> TVL
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>> So I'm unable to fix the regressions from my checkin.  I think it's
>> difficult to require people to keep the tree green on all these builders,
>> if it's this hard for developers on other platforms to reproduce the
>> problems.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Dan Kegel <d...@kegel.com> wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Dan Kegel<d...@kegel.com> wrote:
>>> > If you'd like to help with the stability fixit week
>>> > ( http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/StabilityFixitWeek )
>>> > but valgrind is giving you trouble,
>>> > I'll be available from 10am to 4pm PST today to help;
>>> > contact me via email, chat, or IRC with your
>>> > chromium valgrind questions and I'll try to answer them.
>>>
>>> forgot to mention: my preferred chromium chat is
>>> daniel.r.ke...@gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
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