Hi Alessandro,
2013.11.13. 11:06, "Alessandro Ghedini" <gh...@debian.org> ezt írta:
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 11:13:54PM +0100, Balint Reczey wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 08/07/2013 11:01 AM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> > > On mar, ago 06, 2013 at 01:14:19 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> > >> Package: valgrind
> > >> Version: 1:3.8.1-4
> > >> Followup-For: Bug #701691
> > >>
> > >> Just ran into this issue on our build box abel -- I was genuinly
surprised to
> > >> see valgrind available for that architecture so immediately jumped
to install
> > >> it -- but as this report shows, it is next to useless on armel, so
why we carry
> > >> armel build at all thus confusing poor users?
> > >
> > > It was enabled to let armel users with ARMv7 hardware to use
valgrind. At least
> > > that's what I understood from #592614, but I wasn't the maintainer at
the time.
> > >
> > >> may be
> > >>
> > >> override_dh_auto_test:
> > >> : # do nothing for now
> > >>
> > >> should be tuned up to run at least few really quick tests
> > >
> > > There's no such thing as "quick tests" in valgrind sources, and the
regression
> > > and performance test suites (intended for the valgrind developers)
are way too
> > > heavy and fragile to be enabled on Debian's buildds.
> > Something as little as "valgrind ls" would do it.
> > It could have saved some time from me when I tried running valgrind on
> > armel on Wheezy...
>
> Did you read the other part of my email?
Sure. I meant this could be a very basic regression test which would run on
buildd machines now with dropping the special case armel arch and could
help people rebuilding Valgrind with changed dependencies.
>
> > > It was enabled to let armel users with ARMv7 hardware to use
valgrind. At least
> > > that's what I understood from #592614, but I wasn't the maintainer at
the time.
>
> Obviously running valgrind on the armel buildd wouldn't have worked since
thay
> are not ARMv7. Building armel ARMv7-only valgrind on ARMv5 was *by
design*, to
> let people with armel ARMv7 systems use it.
>
> In any case valgrind is no longer built on armel, and will be removed from
> there soon.
>
> Cheers
>
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