valgrind

[Roland Smith]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 05:12:39PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> 
> ** Port marked as IGNORE: devel/valgrind:
>          is only for i386, while you are running amd64
> ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
>          - devel/valgrind
> 
> Same holds for valgrind-snapshot.
> 
> On it's website I see it supports AMD64 on Linux, so I guess this is a 
> FreeBSD specific problem.
> 
> Is there ongoing work to get this on amd64?
> 
> Out of curiosity, what is the reason it does not work right now?

Read http://valgrind.org/info/platforms.html, especially 'Porting Plans'.

Or remove the line 'ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386' from the port Makefile, try it
and see where it breaks. :-) I'm guessing it need some support code in
the OS.

Roland
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