[mythtv-users] finding leaks

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Sep 2 02:29:29 UTC 2014


On 09/01/2014 01:43 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> Valgrind is a powerful tool for catching leaks, but
> it's meant for developers to use.  Generally, you only want to run it
> on unstripped binaries, which means the first step is to compile
> mythtv from sources.  You don't want to use a prepackaged deb/rpm.
> These usually have the symbol table stripped prior to packaging.

And placed in a separate package--so you just need to install that 
package.  No need to compile from source

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Debugging , see the first note box and
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Debugging#Installing_Debug-enabled_MythTV_from_Packages

Mike


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