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From: Ellen Taylor <ellencubed@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dev-util/valgrind-3.7.0-r4 and glibc
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:06:24
Message-Id: 87sjakwf2z.fsf@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] dev-util/valgrind-3.7.0-r4 and glibc by Mick
1 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> writes:
2
3 > I got this message in elog:
4 >
5 > * Messages for package dev-util/valgrind-3.7.0-r4:
6 >
7 > * Valgrind will not work if glibc does not have debug symbols.
8 > * To fix this you can add splitdebug to FEATURES in make.conf
9 > * and remerge glibc. See:
10 > * https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214065
11 > * https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274771
12 > * https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388703
13 >
14 > but my glibc has no splitdebug USE flags:
15 >
16 > [I] sys-libs/glibc
17 >
18 > Installed versions: 2.15-r2(2.2)^s(08:44:11 08/10/12)(multilib -
19 > crosscompile_opts_headers-only -debug -gd -hardened -profile -selinux -
20 > vanilla)
21 >
22 >
23 > As a matter of fact nothing has:
24 >
25 > $ euse -i splitdebug
26 > global use flags (searching: splitdebug)
27 > ************************************************************
28 > no matching entries found
29 >
30 > local use flags (searching: splitdebug)
31 > ************************************************************
32 > no matching entries found
33 >
34 >
35 > Is this a typo?
36
37 It's not a use flag. It's a portage feature that's added in
38 make.conf. Just add 'FEATURES=splitdebug' to your make.conf.