running gpg-agent in foreground

[Falko Strenzke]

I would like to run my development version of GPG-agent under valgrind. 
As I understand it, for that purpose I have to run it in the foreground, 
i.e. in server mode. However, whenever I launch it as

./bin/gpg-agent --homedir <my-gpg-home-dir>  --log-file agent.log 
--server --debug-all

then, when I launch a private key operation via the gpg application, a 
new agent is started (in daemon mode) and used by gpg and I find no way 
to get the agent launched in server mode to ever process anything.

In contrast, if I start it with the same command line, except for using 
daemon mode, i.e.,

./bin/gpg-agent --homedir <my-gpg-home-dir>  --log-file agent.log 
--daemon --debug-all

then the gpg application always connects to it like expected.

Any ideas how I can launch the agent in the foreground so that the gpg 
application will connect to it?

- Falko

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