Getting Valgrind to build on Debian 5.0.3
I’ve been trying this already several times over the last three months, but always failed to build the latest Valgrind from sources on my Debian box. At last I had success. More here
The problem appears to be that for some unknown reasons GNU Make (or one of its callees, e.g. the shell?!) acts up on cd $$subdir which is used in numerous places in the Makefiles in the source tree.
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Hey, it seems I have figured out the cause, not just the symptom and how to work around it. See http://blog.assarbad.net/20100217/not-valgrind-cdpath/