Re: gprof with -lc_p: anyone able to do it?

[David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>]

"Paul D. Smith" <psmith@gnu.org> writes:
> I wanted to do some profiling on GNU make, so I installed the libc6-prof
> package (I'm using testing) and built make like this:
>
>   $ make CFLAGS='-g -pg' LDFLAGS='-g -pg' LIBS=-lc_p
>
> But this is very unhappy:
>
>   $ ./make
>   Segmentation fault

When I've played with it, you need to link libc_p.a but *not*
libc.so.  This probably involves some makefile frobbing; the final
link winds up looking like

  gcc -g -pg -o foo -nodefaultlibs *.o -lc_p -lgcc

I haven't tried this particularly recently on a Debian machine,
though.

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