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Android valgrind build fails

Asked 2013-05-08T21:38:26.127
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Hello I'm trying to build valgrind for android-arm. On Linux Mint 13 it fails with:

$ make
echo "# This is a generated file, composed of the following suppression rules:" > default.supp
echo "# " exp-sgcheck.supp xfree-3.supp xfree-4.supp glibc-2.X-drd.supp glibc-2.34567-NPTL-helgrind.supp glibc-2.X.supp  >> default.supp
cat exp-sgcheck.supp xfree-3.supp xfree-4.supp glibc-2.X-drd.supp glibc-2.34567-NPTL-helgrind.supp glibc-2.X.supp  >> default.supp
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/matt/Desktop/valgrind/valgrind-3.8.1'
Making all in include
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/matt/Desktop/valgrind/valgrind-3.8.1/include'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/matt/Desktop/valgrind/valgrind-3.8.1/include'
Making all in VEX
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/matt/Desktop/valgrind/valgrind-3.8.1/VEX'
make  all-am
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/matt/Desktop/valgrind/valgrind-3.8.1/VEX'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..  -I.. -I../include -I../VEX/pub -DVGA_arm=1 -DVGO_linux=1 -DVGP_arm_linux=1 -DVGPV_arm_linux_vanilla=1 -Ipriv  -m32 -O2 -g -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wno-format-zero-length -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-builtin -marm -mcpu=cortex-a8 -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -fstrict-aliasing -Wno-long-long  -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-stack-protector -MT libvex_arm_linux_a-main_globals.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/libvex_arm_linux_a-main_globals.Tpo -c -o libvex_arm_linux_a-main_globals.o `test -f 'priv/main_globals.c' || echo './'`priv/main_globals.c
gcc: warning: ‘-mcpu=’ is deprecated; use ‘-mtune=’ or ‘-march=’ instead
cc1: error: unrecognised command line option ‘-marm’
priv/main_globals.c:1:0: error: bad value (cortex-a8) for -mtune= switch
make[3]: *** [libvex_arm_linux_a-main_globals.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/matt/Desktop/valgrind/valgrind-3.8.1/VEX'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Lea
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This gets valgrind to compile for me on linux. (using android-ndk-r8e and valgrind-3.8.1)

There was no need to run autogen.sh since I downloaded the tar ball from the website.

Also make sure the TOOLCHAIN= line points to a valid toolchain.

export NDK_HOME=$HOME/Downloads/android-ndk-r8e

export HWKIND=generic

export TOOLCHAIN=$NDK_HOME/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-4.7/prebuilt/linux-x86_64/bin/arm-linux-androideabi

export AR=$TOOLCHAIN-ar
export LD=$TOOLCHAIN-ld
export CC=$TOOLCHAIN-gcc

CPPFLAGS="--sysroot=$NDK_HOME/platforms/android-14/arch-arm -DANDROID_HARDWARE_$HWKIND" \
    CFLAGS="--sysroot=$NDK_HOME/platforms/android-14/arch-arm" \
    ./configure --prefix=/data/local/Inst \
    --host=armv7-unknown-linux --target=armv7-unknown-linux \
    --with-tmpdir=/sdcard

make

It eventually came up with a compile error saying 

$NDK_HOME/platforms/android-14/arch-arm/usr/include/elf.h:58:3: error: unknown type name 'uint32_t'

It seem like someone forgot to add #include <stdint.h> somewhere. To fix this I edited $NDK_HOME/platforms/android-14/arch-arm/usr/include/elf.h and added #include <stdint.h> to the include section of this header. NOTE: This is probably not the best fix but it is the one that I came up with that fixed the compilation errors.

On mac I was able to get it to compile up until the unknown type uint32_t part by changing how the configure script checks the kernel version.

Inside the configure script search of a line kernel=`uname -r` and change it to kernel=3.9.2. (There are two kernel=`uname -r` lines replace the first one or both if you feel like it)

This stops the configure script from looking at the host kernel when deciding how it should build valgrind. (uname -r grabs the host kernel)

I belie

answered 2013-05-17T15:40:20.137

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