valgrind errors occur too often when 'make test' is used. It is because too

many third-party libs and tools have problems. When curl is built without
--disable-shared, the testing is done with a front-end script which makes the
valgrind testing include (ba)sh as well and that often causes valgrind
errors. Either we improve the valgrind error scanner a lot to better identify
(lib)curl errors only, or we disable valgrind checking by default

diff --git a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
index 6436f16527822db8ef18f9cac1e8915671e0d163..7cbb6280fa11d2e326f31177e0840e6c3227b00e 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
+++ b/docs/KNOWN_BUGS
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@ join in and help us correct one or more of these! Also be sure to check the
 changelog of the current development status, as one or more of these problems
 may have been fixed since this was written!
 
+20. valgrind errors occur too often when 'make test' is used. It is because
+  too many third-party libs and tools have problems. When curl is built
+  without --disable-shared, the testing is done with a front-end script which
+  makes the valgrind testing include (ba)sh as well and that often causes
+  valgrind errors. Either we improve the valgrind error scanner a lot to
+  better identify (lib)curl errors only, or we disable valgrind checking by
+  default.
+
 19. FTP 3rd party transfers with the multi interface doesn't work. Test:
   define CURL_MULTIEASY, rebuild curl, run test case 230 - 232.