Automatically Valgrinding code with AX_VALGRIND_CHECK

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Good initiative, but automake is meant to generate POSIX-compatible Makefiles and this is very heavy on the GNUisms.

To be fair, for all the platforms supported by Valgrind[1] there's a GNU Make port available and assuming GNU Make (or any modern Make, fwiw) saves a lot of headaches. :)

That said, I'm sure that excluding non-GNU Makes is not intentional here and it's only due to the fact that the macro has been developed on Linux by a Linux developer: interested parties are welcome to join the effort and provide patches to clean up GNUism.

[1] http://valgrind.org/info/platforms.html

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