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Subject: Re: what is the meaning of make.conf NOPROFILE ?
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:01:32 -0500
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>     Hello to all,
>
>     For a long time that I see a lot of people (and me) using
>     NOPROFILE=true in make.conf but I never know the real meaning of:
>
>     "Avoid compiling profiled libraries"
>
>     Can anyone give me a quick explanation about using or not this option
and
>     what is changed (or not) with this option ?

By default, 'make buildworld' will build profiled versions of the system
libraries, along with the normal non-profiled ones.  Since profiled system
libraries are only useful for developers working on performance issues (with
userland programs that use system libraries), most people set NOPROFILE=true
to avoid compiling these libraries.  It saves disk space and time.

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Matt Emmerton


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