make fails while installing Valgrind

Question

I\'m trying to install Valgrind on a Mac with Snow Leopard but am getting an error. This is what I\'m typing into Terminal.

$ curl -O http://valgrind.org/do         


        

Answer 1

Ever since the System Integrity Protection system was put in place on OSX, the user, not even as root, can modify /usr. Thus, modifying /usr/include/mach to add the necessary files becomes impossible. The only alternative is now to edit the makefile itself.

The Makefile at hand should be located at coregrind/Makefile, and the mach files should be located near /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.12.sdk/usr/include/ (replace MacOSX10.12.sdk with the appropriate version of OSX).

There should be a symbol named am__append_17 defined around line 160 or so (might be elsewhere for different versions).

It should look something like this:

am__append_17 = \
    /usr/include/mach/mach_vm.defs \
    /usr/include/mach/task.defs \
    /usr/include/mach/thread_act.defs \
    /usr/include/mach/vm_map.defs

Replace each instance of /usr/include with /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.12.sdk/usr/include/, so that it looks like:

am__append_17 = \
    /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.12.sdk/usr/include/mach/mach_vm.defs \
    /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.12.sdk/usr/include/mach/task.defs \
    /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.12.sdk/usr/include/mach/thread_act.defs \
    /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.12.sdk/usr/include/mach/vm_map.defs

After this, valgrind should compile properly