[Xapian-devel] Re: [Xapian-commits] 7289: trunk/xapian-core/ trunk/xapian-core/tests/

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 07:43:53PM +0100, Richard Boulton wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 06:04:26PM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> > Sadly the whole $VG_LOG_FD scheme no longer seems to work though (I mean
> > before your change, I'm not saying you broke it).  I noticed a week or
> > two ago but haven't had time to look into it.
> 
> That's a shame.

OK, I now have this working again.  However, now we have the issue of
--logfile vs --log-file, which changed at the same time.

I think we should probably just drop support for the older valgrind
versions before these options were renamed.  This changed more than two
years old, and that means the platform is almost certainly Linux
(valgrind's support for other platforms is pretty new).  Any decent
Linux distro should have a newer valgrind version packaged by now.

Running the testsuite under valgrind is mostly useful for those
developing Xapian itself, and we already require pretty recent versions
of developer tools like autoconf/automake/libtool.

Cheers,
    Olly