From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 27 9:26:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C102A37B400; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:26:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0329.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.74] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16g7ql-0007ff-00; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:26:46 -0800 Message-ID: <3C7D1698.28A1ABB1@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:25:44 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: Patrik Sundberg , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: valgrind References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Emmerton wrote: > I'm working on porting this right now. > > Be forewarned, though, that the FreeBSD hacks for this tool will > *never* be allowed into the main distro. Why? Licence. Valgrind > includes some code from the Linux kernel and libc. When we hack it for > FreeBSD, we'll end up putting some BSD-licenced code into a GPL > product. Obviously, this will cause problems. > > Afaik, the patches can remain part of the ports tree without problems. Add a dlopen-based module interface? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message