Question

I downloaded Valgrind 3.7.0 and ran:

./configure
make
make install

However when I run valgrind –version, I get 3.5.0. How is this possible? I am running Mac OS X Lion 10.7. I know I downloaded 3.7.0 because the tar file I downloaded from Valgrind’s website name isvalgrind-3.7.0.

What other ways can I check for the version?

Answer 1

By default, valgrind binaries should get installed in /usr/local/bin when you compile from source without providing a --prefix.

(You really just did ./configure && make && make install and had the permissions to install, right?)

1. See if /usr/local/bin/valgrind exists.

2. Execute /usr/local/bin/valgrind --version. What is the version?

3. Execute which valgrind. This should tell you where the valgrind binary is being picked from. Is it the same? My guess is, it is probably not.

4. Execute echo $PATH to see your path. This gives a : delimited list of directories where bash searches for executables, in the order in which the directories are listed.

My guess is:

There is an existing valgrind installation of the old version, and it shows up in a directory that appears earlier in your $PATH than /usr/local/bin.