building profiled libraries

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Aug 25 08:53:37 PDT 2004


In the last episode (Aug 25), Robert Huff said:
> Having read the "gprof" man page, profiled libraries seem to be an
> aid to debugging not necessary for routine system operation.
>
> Is this correct?  Is there any reason not to set "NOPROFILE" in
> /etc/make.conf?

If you never intend to profile your code, the profiling libraries are
just taking up space.  If you do decide to profile something, just make
another world with NOPROFILE commented out.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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