git: 175841285e28 - main - Add deprecation notice for WITH_PROFILE option
Kyle Evans
kevans at freebsd.org
Mon Jun 28 17:26:52 UTC 2021
On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 8:37 AM Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> The branch main has been updated by emaste:
>
> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=175841285e289edebb6603da39f02549521ce950
>
> commit 175841285e289edebb6603da39f02549521ce950
> Author: Ed Maste <emaste at FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2021-06-27 17:21:26 +0000
> Commit: Ed Maste <emaste at FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2021-06-28 15:36:59 +0000
>
> Add deprecation notice for WITH_PROFILE option
>
> As discussed on freebsd-current [1] and freebsd-arch [2] and review
> D30833, FreeBSD 14 will ship without the _p.a libraries built with -pg.
> Both upstream and base system (in commit b762974cf4b9) Clang have been
> modified to remove the special case for linking against these libraries.
>
> Clang's -pg support and mcount() remain, so building with -pg can still
> be used on code that the user builds; we just do not provide prebuilt
> libraries compiled with -pg. A similar change is still needed for GCC.
>
> [1] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2020-January/075105.html
> [2] https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arch/2021-June/000016.html
>
> MFC after: 1 week
> Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
> ---
> tools/build/options/WITHOUT_PROFILE | 2 ++
> tools/build/options/WITH_PROFILE | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/build/options/WITHOUT_PROFILE b/tools/build/options/WITHOUT_PROFILE
> index 7fdb12c94cdd..5cc8dbb027c8 100644
> --- a/tools/build/options/WITHOUT_PROFILE
> +++ b/tools/build/options/WITHOUT_PROFILE
> @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
> .\" $FreeBSD$
> Do not build profiled libraries for use with
> .Xr gprof 8 .
> +This option is enabled by default as of
> +.Fx 14 .
I know we could bikeshed this all day, but I think this verbiage is a
little too casual; "enabled by default" makes it sound like it can be
turned off, when it's really becoming non-optional.
> diff --git a/tools/build/options/WITH_PROFILE b/tools/build/options/WITH_PROFILE
> index 51814a1ea856..3f91c4394911 100644
> --- a/tools/build/options/WITH_PROFILE
> +++ b/tools/build/options/WITH_PROFILE
> @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
> .\" $FreeBSD$
> Build profiled libraries for use with
> .Xr gprof 8 .
> +This option is deprecated and is not present in
> +.Fx 14
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