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Date:      Thu, 6 Dec 2001 13:15:28 -0600
From:      Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: buildworld make.conf question
Message-ID:  <20011206191528.GA22933@gforce.johnson.home>
In-Reply-To: <20011206184549.GH57948@keyslapper.org>
References:  <20011206184549.GH57948@keyslapper.org>

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On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:45:49PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote:

> Hey all. Maybe a dumb question about building the world. What are
> the reasons for, caveats, and benefits of building the world with
> NOPROFILE=true? false?

The profiled libraries would be useful for doing development work but
are otherwise not needed, nor used.  The benefit of not building them
will be a shorter buildworld time.

> I'm not entirely sure what the default is, because I've not found any
> definitive statement one way or the other, but /etc/defaults/make.conf
> has the following:
>
> # To avoid building various parts of the base system:
> . . .
> #NOPROFILE=     true    # Avoid compiling profiled libraries
> 
> Which makes me think the default is false.

Correct.

-- 
Glenn Johnson
glennpj@charter.net

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