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

[Petr Mladek]

Stephan Bergmann píše v Čt 12. 01. 2012 v 11:37 +0100:
> On 11/11/2011 09:36 AM, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> > On 10/26/2011 09:00 PM, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> > 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

Ah, I am sorry for the troubles. I have somehow missed this mail. You
probably did not keep me in CC and I overlooked it on the mailing
list :-(


> > 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>

I think that the main problem is that valgrind is invoked two ways,
either by exporting the variable VALGRIND or using the --valgrind option

The variable was introduced to make debugging easier when running unit-
and subsequent-test. The option was introduced for normal users.

What about the following solution:

+ print log on the standart output when invoking via the variable
+ print to valgrind.log when using the --valgrind option


Would it fit your needs?


Best Regards,
Petr

PS: I wonder why I did not get this idea earlier.