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Date:      Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:06:40 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NOPROFILE=true make.conf during make world
Message-ID:  <20020405160640.C56548@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020405055011.20248.qmail@web14704.mail.yahoo.com>; from wayneclubin@yahoo.com on Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:50:11PM -0800
References:  <20020405055011.20248.qmail@web14704.mail.yahoo.com>

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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

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