[Xapian-devel] Test failures

[Richard Boulton]

Olly Betts wrote:
> However, I don't believe this is actually the cause of the problem, since
> this change just fixes configure to actually successfully detect modern
> versions of valgrind.

It's probably worth noting that I checked (about 2 weeks ago) a recent 
version of xapian with a SVN HEAD release of valgrind, and while it 
still reports memory leaks in the remotetcp test cases, it reports 
smaller amounts leaked than the version of valgrind in debian stable 
(ie, as installed on atreus).  The changelog for valgrind notes that 
some improvements have been made in the memory checker to avoid false 
positives.

I'm 99.9% confident that the reports are false positives, having gone 
through them in some detail, but it would be very nice to make them go 
away...  For the buildbot I've been setting up, I've disabled valgrind 
checks on the remotetcp backend.

-- 
Richard