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Date:      Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:53:35 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: building profiled libraries
Message-ID:  <20040825155335.GC4378@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <16684.46009.899363.366353@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
References:  <16684.46009.899363.366353@jerusalem.litteratus.org>

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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



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