[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#732160: openmpi-common: Valgrind suppression file incomplete

[Manuel Prinz]

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 10:32:58PM +0100, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
> So either there are memory leaks in OpenMPI that are triggered by
> that test program, or the OpenMPI Valgrind suppression file
> /usr/share/openmpi/openmpi-valgrind.supp is not complete.

The problem is reproducible. I'll take this upstream.

> The newest one [openmpi-valgrind.supp] seems to be:
> 
> https://svn.open-mpi.org/source/xref/ompi-trunk/contrib/openmpi-valgrind.supp
> 
> but my valgrind does not seem happy with that file:
> 
> ==21821== FATAL: in suppressions file "./openmpi-valgrind.supp" near line 95:
> ==21821==    bad or missing extra suppression info
> ==21821== exiting now.

This is reproducible with the Valgrind version in unstable (3.9.0). It
does throw an error with the version in Jessie (3.8.1). I do not know
Vagrand very well, maybe upstream has clue.

Best regards,

  Manuel