install valgrind, Fatal error at startup

Question

I am installing Valgrind but encounter some problems. The info of my platform:

Linux xx-ThinkPad-X61 3.2.0-39-generic-pae #62-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 27 22:25:11 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I follows the installation instruction of the README file in the valgrind folder. ./configure ->make -> sudo make install.

I can't understand the following reminder in the README file, I just overlooked it.

Important!  Do not move the valgrind installation into a place
different from that specified by --prefix at build time.  This will
cause things to break in subtle ways, mostly when Valgrind handles
fork/exec calls.

after typing "valgrind ls -l", error appears:

xx@xx-ThinkPad-X61:~/Downloads/valgrind-3.8.1$ valgrind ls -l
==7674== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==7674== Copyright (C) 2002-2012, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==7674== Using Valgrind-3.8.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==7674== Command: ls -l
==7674== 

valgrind:  Fatal error at startup: a function redirection
valgrind:  which is mandatory for this platform-tool combination
valgrind:  cannot be set up.  Details of the redirection are:
valgrind:  
valgrind:  A must-be-redirected function
valgrind:  whose name matches the pattern:      strlen
valgrind:  in an object with soname matching:   ld-linux.so.2
valgrind:  was not found whilst processing
valgrind:  symbols from the object with soname: ld-linux.so.2
valgrind:  
valgrind:  Possible fixes: (1, short term): install glibc's debuginfo
valgrind:  package on this machine.  (2, longer term): ask the packagers
valgrind:  for your Linux distribution to please in future ship a non-
valgrind:  stripped ld.so (or whatever the dynamic linker .so is called)
valgrind:  that exports the above-named function using the standard
valgrind:  calling conventions for this platform.  The package you need
valgrind:  to install for fix (1) is called
valgrind:  
valgrind:    On Debian, Ubuntu:                 libc6-dbg
valgrind:    On SuSE, openSuSE, Fedora, RHEL:   glibc-debuginfo
valgrind:  
valgrind:  Cannot continue -- exiting now.  Sorry.

Could someone give some suggestions?

thanks!

Answer 1

I also faced this error, but finally resolved in below manner.

I am having 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04, and my executable is 32 bit. When I run my 32 bit executable with valgrind I got this same error. This error was not resolved even after installing libc6-dbg (using command apt-get install libc6-dbg).

Later I found like whatever libc6-dbg present in my machine was 64 bit and valgrind requires a 32 bit libc6-dbg to run my 32 bit executable. After installing 32 bit libc6-dbg (using the command apt-get install libc6-dbg:i386) it started working.