Yosemite and Valgrind

Question

Can you tell me how to install valgrind on yosemite? When I try to install it i get " checking for the kernel version... unsupported (14.0.0) configure: error: Valgrind works on Darwin 10.x, 11.x, 12.x and 13.x (Mac OS X 10.6/7/8/9) "

There is no official path or update, and I didn't found anything (except http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.bugs/1553705 , but they didn't resolve that problem).

Answer 1

As there's no stable release that supports Yosemite, you can install the latest development version with

brew install --HEAD valgrind 

Answer 2

Whilst it may have been the case in past OS X release cycles that Valgrind took a period of time before achieving reasonable feature support, basic OS X 10.10 support is already available in Valgrind trunk due to significant work on pre-release Yosemite.

From the mailing list:

There has been some effort recently to improve Valgrind's support for Yosemite. If you develop on Mac OS, you might like to try out the trunk (svn co svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk) and report any breakage you get. Support for Yosemite is good enough that at least one large graphical application (Firefox) runs OK. Support for the previous release, 10.9 (Mavericks), is also substantially improved.

Note that the work has targetted 64 bit processes only. 32 bit might work, and probably better on Mavericks, but I suspect it will be increasingly problematic on Yosemite due to Valgrind's 32 bit x86 instruction set support not having progressed passed SSSE3.

Julian Seward

http://sourceforge.net/p/valgrind/mailman/message/33047840/

Full disclosure: I'm one of the new Valgrind developers who contributed patches to support OS X 10.10