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User3
User3

Reputation: 2535

trying to install valgrind but stuck at make valgrind, how?

This might be a silly question, actually I have just started with it. I am following a tutorial to LCTHW

and I am trying to install valgrind, the author specifies steps:

1) Download it (use wget if you don't have curl)

curl -O http://valgrind.org/downloads/valgrind-3.6.1.tar.bz2

use md5sum to make sure it matches the one on the site

md5sum valgrind-3.6.1.tar.bz2

2) Unpack it.

tar -xjvf valgrind-3.6.1.tar.bz2

cd into the newly created directory

cd valgrind-3.6.1

3) configure it

./configure

4) make it

make

5) install it (need root)

sudo make install

I am stuck at step 4, what to make here? What should the command look like? I have made c programs before but which specific file in here do I need to specify?

This is what I get when I run make: 

Blackbeard@PC-DEV-A179:~/valgrind-3.6.1$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

Edit:

As pinted out by user43250937, ./configure is not working properly, I get the following: 

$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for ar... /usr/bin/ar
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for gdb... /usr/bin/gdb
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for diff -u... yes
checking for a supported version of gcc... ok (4.8.2)
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a supported CPU... ok (x86_64)
checking for a 64-bit only build... no
checking for a 32-bit only build... no
checking for a supported OS... ok (linux-gnu)
checking for the kernel version... unsupported (3.13.0-49-generic)
configure: error: Valgrind works on kernels 2.4, 2.6

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3848

Answers (2)

rost0031
rost0031

Reputation: 1926

From your output:

configure: error: Valgrind works on kernels 2.4, 2.6

Did you download a ridiculously old copy of valgrind? Also, on Ubuntu, you can just 

sudo apt-get install valgrind

Upvotes: 1

uraimo
uraimo

Reputation: 19851

Step 3 (configure), likely didn't complete correctly due to missing dependecies/libraries, check the output of that command.

Edit: You need a newer version of Valgrind that supports kernel 3.x, now they are at valgrind-3.10.1, that will work.

Upvotes: 2

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