add --(en,dis)able-valgrind option to really disable valgrindgnurl-7.65.1

during tests. Default to off because with my OS and my version
of valgrind this blows up the testsuite into one happy coredump
party (9 exceptions to this).

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index f14bee011..6574d1b02 100755
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -175,9 +175,34 @@ curl_verbose_msg="enabled (--disable-verbose)"
    curl_rtmp_msg="no      (--with-librtmp)"
   curl_mtlnk_msg="no      (--with-libmetalink)"
     curl_psl_msg="no      (--with-libpsl)"
+    valgrind_msg="no      (--enable-valgrind)"
 
     ssl_backends=
 
+
+dnl valgrind for tests -- coredumps all over the place with the
+dnl valgrind version I here, fixes welcome.
+AC_MSG_CHECKING(wether to enable valgrind in testsuite)
+AC_ARG_ENABLE([valgrind],
+	      [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-valgrind],
+			      [Enable valgrind for tests])],
+			      [valgrind=${enableval}],
+			      [valgrind=no])
+AC_MSG_RESULT($valgrind)
+AS_IF([test "x$valgrind" = "xno"],
+      [AM_CONDITIONAL([VALGRIND],
+		      false)
+       AC_DEFINE([VALGRIND],
+     		[0],
+		[Running tests with -n])
+       valgrind_msg="no"],
+      [AM_CONDITIONAL([VALGRIND],
+			true)
+	AC_DEFINE([VALGRIND],
+		  [1],
+		  [Running tests with valgrind])
+	valgrind_msg="yes"])
+
 dnl
 dnl Save some initial values the user might have provided
 dnl
@@ -4341,6 +4366,7 @@ if test "x$USE_LIBRTMP" = "x1"; then
   SUPPORT_PROTOCOLS="$SUPPORT_PROTOCOLS RTMP"
 fi
 
+
 dnl replace spaces with newlines
 dnl sort the lines
 dnl replace the newlines back to spaces
@@ -4442,6 +4468,7 @@ AC_MSG_NOTICE([Configured to build gnurl/libgnurl:
   HTTP2:            ${curl_h2_msg}
   Protocols:        ${SUPPORT_PROTOCOLS}
   Features:         ${SUPPORT_FEATURES}
+  valgrind tests:   ${valgrind_msg}
 ])
 if test -n "$experimental"; then
  cat >&2 << _EOF