[petsc-users] val grind suppression file

[Satish Balay]

Perhaps this file should be moved to share/petsc/valgrind/

Satish

On Mon, 7 Jun 2021, Satish Balay via petsc-users wrote:

> Hm - the file always existed in the repo - and was previously used via env variable. But 'maint' dir was not included in the tarball.
> 
> But I see https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/commit/90544984b0d changed from using it via env variable to a command line option.
> 
> Satish
> 
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2021, Randall Mackie wrote:
> 
> > It seems that starting with petsc-3.15.0 the command petscmpiexec, when invoking Valgrind, now looks for a Valgrind suppression file, but there is no such file (at least in petsc-3.15.0.tar.gz <https://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/release-snapshots/petsc-3.15.0.tar.gz> from which I compiled the latest version).
> > 
> > I did see this mention of a Valgrind suppression file:
> > 
> > https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/commit/8d40a81ba4aa829c74edde321b419e6416763279 <https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc/-/commit/8d40a81ba4aa829c74edde321b419e6416763279>
> > 
> > 
> > Is this the correct file to use?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Randy M.
>