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

[August Sodora]

Does it make sense to do --log-file=valgrind.out.%p ?

August Sodora
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.cz> wrote:
> 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.
>
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