proflibs

[Ansar Mohammed]

Are they needed for compiling anything from ports?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Chadwick [mailto:koitsu at FreeBSD.org]
> Sent: October 11, 2008 5:59 AM
> To: Ansar Mohammed
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: proflibs
> 
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:06:11PM -0400, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
> > Can anyone explain what are the proflibs on the install media, and
> what they
> > are for?
> 
> They're special versions of all the libraries that come with FreeBSD
> which contain profiling code (code for determining the amount of time
> spent within or between two functions).
> 
> They're for developers.
> 
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