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Re: oprofile on Xorg HOWTO ?



On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:45:21PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> So I've spent the past hour or two hammering away at this. Here's what I've
> found:
> 
>  1) The files all appear to be correctly compiled with -g in the build_tree
>     dir
>  2) None of the files are stripped in this dir after the build is done.
>     "file" confirms this, as does the size of the thing (libX11 is 9 megs
> 	in build_tree but the stripped version on my system is 860k or so).
>  3) The file with the debugging symbols is only 4k. Where'd those 8 megs
>     go?
>  4) objdump -g on any of the files in build_tree can't find the debugging
>     info.
> 
> At first I thought it was a problem with dh_strip, but now I'm thinking
> that it's an issue with binutils. If anyone else can offer any insight to
> this, it'd be much appreciated, since I don't know much about the details
> of debugging symbols. I'll probably send a bug to binutils very soon about
> this so we can figure out what's going on.

Is install -s being called, instead of plain install?

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