[Valgrind-users] valgrind: failed to start tool 'memcheck' for platform 'amd64-linux': No such file or directory

[Matthias Funk]

Hi,
i am new with valgrind. i downloaded the source and built it and installed it in $HOME/usr. That worked just fine. However, when i simply try to invoke valgrind it gives me the above (see email title) error message. I read a previous post where someone had a similar issue. According to that I found the memcheck executable in $HOME/usr/lib/valgrind/amd64-linux.

So i put that directory in my PATH (via .bash_profile). So now it is in my path and when i try to execute it by itself it tells me it is not standalone but i should invoke valgrind.

So i do that, but i still get the above error message.
Is there something obvious I am doing wrong?

[Julian Seward]

Post by Matthias Funk
Is there something obvious I am doing wrong?

Hard to say. If you send the sequence of commands you use to build it,
and the output of ./configure, that would help.

J

[Matthias Funk]

mmmhhh,

After doing a make clean i redid the installation as configure --prefix=blah, make all and make install and tried it again and it seems to work now.

i think i installed it to a different directory before and then forgot the make clean before i installed it the second time.

anyway,
it seems to work. sorry about that


mat

ps; i'll likely have more questions later on ...