Re: Profiled libraries on freebsd-current

On Sat, 30 Apr 2022 at 11:34, Steve Kargl
<sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 09:39:32AM -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 at 01:58, Steve Kargl
> > <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > If one looks at src.conf(5), one finds
> > >
> > >    WITH_PROFILE
> > >          Build profiled libraries for use with gprof(8).  This option is
> > >          deprecated and is not present in FreeBSD 14.
> > >
> > > I assume that the *_p.a libraries will no longer be built and
> > > installed on FreeBSD 14 and later.  Is this correct?
> >
> > FreeBSD 14 is not yet released, of course, but that is indeed the
> > intent. PR256874 reports that a GCC patch (to stop linking against
> > _p.a) is in the works but unfortunately has not had an update for some
> > time.
>
> I see.  It only took me 2+ years to get
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89125
>
> committed to the GCC repository.  Good luck with
> getting your patch upstream.

Heh, thanks.

I have just now changed the WITH_PROFILE description to state "a
future version of FreeBSD" since it may well not happen for FreeBSD
14.

We could also just install libc_p.a as a symlink to libc.a (and same
for the other _p.a archives).