https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368873
Bug ID: 368873
Summary: Please add FreeBSD to supported OS list
Product: valgrind
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: FreeBSD
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: jsew...@acm.org
Reporter: y...@tsoft.com
Hi,
valgrind currently doesn't support FreeBSD OS. As a result, version on FreeBSD
is delayed: FreeBSD still has 3.10.1 when 3.11.0 has been released almost a
year ago.
De facto, valgrind works fine on FreeBSD. So it doesn't need to be brought up
to speed, or anything like that. It just needs to be merged into and maintained
as a part of the single upstream source tree.
The current problem is that the person maintaining valgrind's FreeBSD flavor
doesn't manage to have time to sync with the upstream, so the version is
lagging in BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/stass/valgrind-freebsd
If you add another OS, you will find out that in the long run this is also
beneficial for the project as a whole, because supporting more OSes will make
valgrind itself cleaner and more generic. I myself created many FreeBSD ports,
and I submitted hundreds of bug reports to various upstreams with bugs that
were found because FreeBSD does things a bit differently than Linux. (For
example, I found that the configure option in jq failed to turn the regex
library off, or that tor fails to create the /var/run/tor/pid file when the
enclosing directory doesn't exist. Nobody on linux ever tried these things.)
Please support FreeBSD! It is a very nice system, people who work with it never
have anything bad to say about it.
Reproducible: Always
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