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authornjn <njn@a5019735-40e9-0310-863c-91ae7b9d1cf9>2005-07-26 22:01:04 +0000
committernjn <njn@a5019735-40e9-0310-863c-91ae7b9d1cf9>2005-07-26 22:01:04 +0000
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Update for 3.0.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@4267 a5019735-40e9-0310-863c-91ae7b9d1cf9
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@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ on.
Valgrind is closely tied to details of the CPU, operating system and
to a less extent, compiler and basic C libraries. This makes it
-difficult to make it portable, so I have chosen at the outset to
-concentrate on what I believe to be a widely used platform: x86/Linux.
+difficult to make it portable. Nonetheless, it is available for
+the following platforms: x86/Linux, AMD64/Linux and PPC32/Linux.
Valgrind is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.
Read the file COPYING in the source distribution for details.
@@ -63,31 +63,32 @@ specified with --prefix= when building.
Building and installing it
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-To install from CVS :
+To install from the Subversion repository :
- 0. Check out the code from CVS, following the instructions at
- http://developer.kde.org/source/anoncvs.html. The 'modulename' is
- "valgrind".
+ 0. Check out the code from SVN, following the instructions at
+ http://valgrind.org/devel/cvs_svn.html.
1. cd into the source directory.
2. Run ./autogen.sh to setup the environment (you need the standard
autoconf tools to do so).
+ 3. Continue with the following instructions...
+
To install from a tar.bz2 distribution:
- 3. Run ./configure, with some options if you wish. The standard
+ 4. Run ./configure, with some options if you wish. The standard
options are documented in the INSTALL file. The only interesting
one is the usual --prefix=/where/you/want/it/installed.
- 4. Do "make".
+ 5. Do "make".
- 5. Do "make install", possibly as root if the destination permissions
+ 6. Do "make install", possibly as root if the destination permissions
require that.
- 6. See if it works. Try "valgrind --tool=memcheck ls -l". Either
- this works, or it bombs out with some complaint. In that case,
- please let us know (see www.valgrind.org).
+ 7. See if it works. Try "valgrind ls -l". Either this works, or it
+ bombs out with some complaint. In that case, please let us know
+ (see www.valgrind.org).
Important! Do not move the valgrind installation into a place
different from that specified by --prefix at build time. This will