From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 15:53:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E435116A4CF for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:53:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A2443D55 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:53:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i7PFrZ5F074971; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:53:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:53:35 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Robert Huff Message-ID: <20040825155335.GC4378@dan.emsphone.com> References: <16684.46009.899363.366353@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16684.46009.899363.366353@jerusalem.litteratus.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1 X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building profiled libraries X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:53:37 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 25), Robert Huff said: > Having read the "gprof" man page, profiled libraries seem to be an > aid to debugging not necessary for routine system operation. > > Is this correct? Is there any reason not to set "NOPROFILE" in > /etc/make.conf? If you never intend to profile your code, the profiling libraries are just taking up space. If you do decide to profile something, just make another world with NOPROFILE commented out. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com