Re: Profiled libraries on freebsd-current

From: Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022 13:39:32 UTC 
On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 at 01:58, Steve Kargl
<sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> If one looks at src.conf(5), one finds
>
>    WITH_PROFILE
>          Build profiled libraries for use with gprof(8).  This option is
>          deprecated and is not present in FreeBSD 14.
>
> I assume that the *_p.a libraries will no longer be built and
> installed on FreeBSD 14 and later.  Is this correct?

FreeBSD 14 is not yet released, of course, but that is indeed the
intent. PR256874 reports that a GCC patch (to stop linking against
_p.a) is in the works but unfortunately has not had an update for some
time.