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I downloaded the newest Valgrind and extracted it.

I run

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/valgrind

which gives me


I run

make install

It gives me

make: Nothing to be done for `install'.

How can you install Valgrind to the newest OS X?

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Version 3.4.1 is incompatible with Mac OS X as far as I know. As it wasn't until more recently (May 2009 - 3.4.1 was released in February 2009) that valgrind was given "compatibility." The Mac OS X port is as quoted from the Mac OS X page:


You'll need to get the latest from svn as documented on valgrind.org:

svn co svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk valgrind
cd valgrind
./configure --prefix=...
make install

You will need autoconf and automake as well that can be most easily installed using MacPorts

For debugging the "configure, make, make install" dance:

Did you see what error in the configure phase came up? You can't make (and subsequently install using make install) unless the configuration works correctly.

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@Chealian: Thank you for your answer! –  Masi Jun 26 '09 at 22:51

The instructions say you need to do ./autogen.sh before make.

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