[ELDK] Valgrind on Eldk-4.2: Getting hold of glibc-debug

[Daniel Janzon]

On 11/16/2012 01:46 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Daniel Janzon,
>
> In message <50A61CAA.2010407 at edgeware.tv> you wrote:
>> Did anyone ever succeed to run Valgrind on Eldk 4.2? It seems
>> to boil down to getting the debug version of glibc. Searching
>> the web and the mailing list archives, some people tried, did
>> anyone of you succeed?
> Why exactly would you want to use the nearly 5 year old ELDK 4.2, when
> recent versions such as 5.2.1 have this working out of the box?

I want to debug a memory leak in a legacy product. Updating to
a new eldk version seems like overkill for that, but maybe the
transition is smooth.

>> Blog post that I can't follow since I can't find the glibc source
>> package:
> There is no separate glibc package.  As explained before, what you are
> asking for cannot be easily done in ELDK 4.x; for a detailed
> explanation please see
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.embedded.eldk/1877
>
>
> I really recommend to update and use ELDK 5.x instead (either the
> existing v5.2.1, or you wait a bit and jump onto the upcoming v5.3).
>

Ok, I will consider that. Thanks for your quick reply.

All the best,
Daniel