[aur-general] algoscore

[Nathan O]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Christopher Brannon
<cmbrannon79 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Nathan O <ndowens.aur at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Nathan O <ndowens.aur at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> *** glibc detected *** algoscore: malloc(): memory corruption:
> 0x0a010ba8
>
> *SNIP lots of backtrace*
> > The above is what I get when I try to start algoscore, it seems to be
> glibc
> > related
>
> Actually, it has very little to do with glibc.  There's a memory-related
> bug in that program.  I'm curious to see what valgrind has to say about
> it.  Here's what I would do.
>
> Edit /etc/makepkg.conf.  Disable the strip option in the OPTIONS array.
> Change CFLAGS to read:
> CFLAGS='-g -O0'
> Next, rebuild the package.
> Run it under valgrind, like this:
> valgrind --leak-check=full --log-file=valg.log PROGRAM_NAME PROGRAM_OPTIONS
> If you send me the log file off-list, I'll look over it.
> You should probably undo the edits to /etc/makepkg.conf when you are
> done.   I keep two copies of makepkg.conf: one for building normal
> packages, and one for building packages with debugging symbols.
>
> -- Chris
>

Thanks for the pointer, to make myself not seem so bad at this. I am
currently getting BES to work, which was giving errors at compile time :)