add script to build gperftools/libtcmalloc

.devcontainer/Dockerfile

@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ RUN apt-get update && export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \
     && apt install -y wget \
     && apt install -y python-dev \
     && apt install -y python3-dev \
-    && apt install -y libgoogle-perftools-dev \
+    && apt install -y dh-autoreconf \

build_tcmalloc.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# =============================================================================
+# FILENAME	:	build_tcmalloc.sh
+# AUTHOR	:	Michael Yan
+# CREATION	:	2022-05-30
+# Script to build gperftools/libtcmalloc with specified version.
+#
+# This script will the do the following steps
+# 1. Create working directory
+# 2. clone the tcmalloc source
+# 3. checkout the desired release version
+# 4. configure, build and install
+# =============================================================================
+set -e
+
+if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]
+then
+  echo "Usage: $0 <gperftools version>"
+  echo "    For example, \"$0 2.7\""
+  echo "    Please refer to https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools/releases"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+PROJECT_FOLDER=$(pwd)
+release_tag=$1
+echo "Current project folder is $PROJECT_FOLDER"
+build_folder=$PROJECT_FOLDER/build
+mkdir -p $build_folder
+cd $build_folder
+scr_dir="gperftools"
+if [ ! -d $scr_dir ]
+then
+    echo "cloning gperftools ..."
+    git clone https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools.git
+fi
+cd $scr_dir
+
+echo "checkout $release_tag"
+branch_name=gperftools-$release_tag
+if [ -n "$(git branch --list ${branch_name})" ]
+then
+    echo "Branch name $branch_name already exists."
+else
+    git checkout tags/$branch_name -b $branch_name
+fi
+
+echo "building..."
+./autogen.sh
+./configure
+make clean && make -j 4 && sudo make install

test/makefile

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ mallocTest_tcmalloc: mallocTest_tcmalloc.o
 	$(CXX) $(COMP_OPT) -o $@ $^ $(LIBS) -ltcmalloc
 
 check-tcmalloc: mallocTest_tcmalloc
-	$(GDB) mallocTest_tcmalloc -q -ex 'switch_heap tc' -x verify.py
+	export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib; $(GDB) mallocTest_tcmalloc -q -x verify.py
 
 clean:
 	rm *.o ${TARGETS}