From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 4 22: 6:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B5F237B41E for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 22:06:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 435472B6CC; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 08:06:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 61D5C1CD; Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:06:40 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:06:40 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Wayne Lubin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NOPROFILE=true make.conf during make world Message-ID: <20020405160640.C56548@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Wayne Lubin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020405055011.20248.qmail@web14704.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020405055011.20248.qmail@web14704.mail.yahoo.com>; from wayneclubin@yahoo.com on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:50:11PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:50:11PM -0800, Wayne Lubin wrote: > The handbook recommends that > > NOPROFILE=true # Avoid compiling profiled libraries > > be in make.conf file for the "make world" procedure. > Just wondering what are profiled libraries and/or why > I don't need them. Thanks Profiles libraries are libraries which are used when you are collecting runtime-information about a program like amount of function calls, time spend in function calls, memory used etc. The data is collected at runtime and stored in filename.gmon and can be viewed with gprof. If you're not a developer you won't need them. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message