[Libreoffice] Dumping to valgrind.log from soffice shell script needed?

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 11/11/2011 09:36 AM, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> On 10/26/2011 09:00 PM, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>> On 10/26/2011 01:55 PM, Petr Mladek wrote:
>>> What is your preferred way of use?
>>> What exactly do you hate and/or miss?
>>
>> One problem is output of multiple (batched, like "make subsequentcheck")
>> valgrind'ed invocations of soffice.bin is lost.
>>
>> Another problem is attaching a debugger (VALGRIND_OPTS=--db-attach=yes)
>> does not work.
>
> So, meanwhile I had thought that I can somehow live with the
> inconvenience the automatic-valgrind.log feature brings, trying to
> remember to remove the relevant line from the soffice script in
> scenarios where it matters.
>
> But today I had to find out that even a single invocation of the
> sw/qa_complex test internally starts multiple soffice instances in a
> row, and coming back to a multi-hour valgrind run of that test all I got
> was a most unhelpful valgrind.log for a single soffice invocation.
>
> This feature turns out to be a real productivity problem for me after
> all. Petr, can you please re-consider whether it is really too much to
> ask your clients to type
>
> VALGRIND=memcheck soffice 2>valgrind.log
>
> instead of
>
> VALGRIND=memcheck soffice

Removed that feature now, after yet another round of frustrations. 
<http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=4f00cdfec54a574e25f47dab2f65b299ea64ec73>

Stephan