[CMake] Memory checking MPI programs with valgrind?

[Eric Noulard]

2009/2/26 Bartlett, Roscoe A <rabartl at sandia.gov>:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know how to get CMake/CTest to do memory testing with MPI
> programs using valgrind?  The problem is that by default valgrind just tests
> the mpiexec/mpirun driver program and not your user program.  I think there
> are some options you can pass to valgrind to get it to do this

mpirun/mpiexec should somehow fork your program such that you need to add:

--trace-children=yes

to valgrind in order to make it trace the child process too.

> but has anyone used these through CMake/CTest and gotten the results submitted to a
> CDash dashboard?

Not me :-(

-- 
Erk