svn commit: r228143 - in head: . share/mk tools/build/options

[Bruce Evans]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Warner Losh wrote:

> On Nov 29, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>
>> 2011/11/29 Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org>:
>>> On 11/29/2011 12:47, Gábor Kövesdán wrote:
>>>> On 2011.11.29. 20:46, Max Khon wrote:
>>>>> Log:
>>>>>    Turn off profiled libs build by default.
>>>>>    Can be enabled back using WITH_PROFILE=yes in /etc/src.conf
>>>> I think it was useful. Profiling is useful for developing any piece of
>>>> software that builds on libc or other common libs, even for software
>>>> that is not directly related to FreeBSD. I think it should be reverted.
>>>
>>> Since we ask users to read -current, it would be useful if our
>>> developers did too. :)
>>>
>>> As Max pointed out in his message about this, the profiled libs are only
>>> really useful to a tiny percentage of developers. If you need them,
>>> twist the knob. Building them should be off by default.
>>
>> +1. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. As suggested
>> elsewhere, I think it would also be a good idea to enable it in
>> tinderbox builds.
>
> -1.  The needs of the many?  Please.  Let's break a useful feature because some people don't understand it and are impatient?  That's lame.

Don't be silly.  Building profiled libraries takes as much as 1 minute.
Many would not want to wait that long (if they noticed how long it takes).
This is not 1994 when building of profiling libraries was left in because
it only took an extra hour or or so.

Bruce