On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Oliver Schneider <[email protected]> wrote: > > maybe someone can tell me whether my little shell snippet is based on > the right assumptions in order to find the Valgrind version: > > valgrind --version|sed 's/valgrind-//g;s/\([0-9]*\.[0-9]\)\..*/\1/' > > Can one rely on the format of the string being > "valgrind-x.y.z[whatever]" (where x.y are the major and minor version > number)? > > The default seems to be "valgrind-x.y.z" but on Ubuntu I've seen > "valgrind-3.6.0.SVN-Debian" and I'm only after major and minor version > number as I presume that similar incompatibilities would not get > introduced with patch releases (where z varies).
For released versions we use valgrind-x.y.z but who knows what Debian and other packagers might do. Nick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
