1. 到官网http://valgrind.org/downloads/上下载valgrind最新版本；
2. 解压源码，执行./configure;make;make install后，默认安装到/usr/local/bin下，执行：
valgrind ls -l
3. 提示：
==14336== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==14336== Copyright (C) 2002-2011, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==14336== Using Valgrind-3.7.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==14336== Command: ls -l ==14336== 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-x86-64.so.2 valgrind: was not found whilst processing valgrind: symbols from the object with soname: ld-linux-x86-64.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.
大概是说我的glibc是个strip后的版本，需要下载debug版，debug版的名字是libc6-dbg。
执行：
sudo apt-get install libc6-dbg
4. 再次执行valgrind ls -l，输出：
==14378== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==14378== Copyright (C) 2002-2011, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==14378== Using Valgrind-3.7.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==14378== Command: ls -l ==14378== total 108 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-07-13 03:26 bin drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2012-07-13 07:36 boot drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-07-13 07:06 cdrom drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 3620 2012-07-24 03:00 dev drwxr-xr-x 128 root root 12288 2012-07-24 03:06 etc drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2012-07-13 08:16 home lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2012-07-13 07:07 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-38-generic drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 12288 2012-07-13 03:23 lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-07-13 03:24 lib32 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2012-07-13 07:03 lib64 -> /lib drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2012-07-13 07:03 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2012-07-13 02:13 media drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-02-03 04:21 mnt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-07-13 07:03 opt dr-xr-xr-x 182 root root 0 2012-07-24 02:58 proc drwx------ 8 root root 4096 2012-07-24 21:25 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-07-16 01:21 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-12-05 17:25 selinux drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-07-13 07:03 srv drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 0 2012-07-24 02:58 sys drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2012-07-16 01:39 tftpboot drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 4096 2012-07-24 21:31 tmp drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2012-07-13 03:23 usr drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2012-07-13 07:31 var lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2012-07-13 07:07 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-38-generic drwxrwxrwx 6 root root 4096 2012-07-24 03:02 work ==14378== ==14378== HEAP SUMMARY: ==14378== in use at exit: 20,081 bytes in 58 blocks ==14378== total heap usage: 1,798 allocs, 1,740 frees, 164,568 bytes allocated ==14378== ==14378== LEAK SUMMARY: ==14378== definitely lost: 240 bytes in 3 blocks ==14378== indirectly lost: 480 bytes in 20 blocks ==14378== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==14378== still reachable: 19,361 bytes in 35 blocks ==14378== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==14378== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory ==14378== ==14378== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v ==14378== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 2 from 2)
看来ls这个命令是没有任何内存问题的。。。