[aur-general] algoscore

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Christopher Brannon's message of 2010-08-25 04:21:13 +0200:
> Nathan O <ndowens.aur at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Nathan O <ndowens.aur at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> *** glibc detected *** algoscore: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0a010ba8
> 
> *SNIP lots of backtrace*
> > The above is what I get when I try to start algoscore, it seems to be glibc
> > related
> 
> Actually, it has very little to do with glibc.  There's a memory-related
> bug in that program.  I'm curious to see what valgrind has to say about
> it.  Here's what I would do.
> 
> Edit /etc/makepkg.conf.  Disable the strip option in the OPTIONS array.
> Change CFLAGS to read:
> CFLAGS='-g -O0'
> Next, rebuild the package.
> Run it under valgrind, like this:
> valgrind --leak-check=full --log-file=valg.log PROGRAM_NAME PROGRAM_OPTIONS
> If you send me the log file off-list, I'll look over it.
> You should probably undo the edits to /etc/makepkg.conf when you are
> done.   I keep two copies of makepkg.conf: one for building normal
> packages, and one for building packages with debugging symbols.
> 
> -- Chris

Another note:
Don't forget to change the 'strip' option in the PKGBUILD. !strip should
disable it, or just remove it to control it from makepkg.conf alone.
-- 
Philipp

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