[oi-dev] valgrind and epoll(5) illumos issue

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 10.04.21 um 18:22 schrieb Bob Friesenhahn:
> On Sat, 10 Apr 2021, stes at PANDORA.BE wrote:
>>
>> valgrind seems to work on the squeak VM runtime (which was a surprise
>> to me,
>> since the squeak VM runtime is not exactly simple).
>>
>> It's a nice tool  - and a good/excellent package in the OI repository.
>
> Probably the valgrind I have on my machine is out of date.  It
> identifies itself as version 3.15.0 and the timestamp on the
> executable is April 20, 2020.  It does not work at all for testing
> GraphicsMagick and ends in a core dump.
>
> It would be good to have Clang or GCC ASAN working as well.  One of
> the main reasons why I continually turn to a Linux system is a working
> valgrind and ASAN/UBSAN.
>
> Bob
If almost nobody cares for packages on OI enough to update them then
sooner or later OI will be dead.
Eg. you state on your signature that you are a graphicsmagic maintainer,
yet our graphicsmagic version is 1.3.26 while the latest is 1.3.36
according to https://repology.org/project/graphicsmagick/versions

Andreas