[PATCH V2] gprofng: a new GNU profiler

[Ruud van der Pas]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the feedback.

I’m sorry you ran into problems. This looks like a bug to me and
we will investigate this as soon as possible. We will share the
outcome with this group.

To be continued!

Kind regards, Ruud

> On 26 Aug 2021, at 06:17, Peter Kessler (Open Source) via Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org> wrote:
> 
> I am trying to build gprofng on aarch64.  I cloned https://github.com/oracle/binutils-gdb.git and checked out the oracle/gprofng-v2 branch.  I saw the requirement
> 
> In order to successfully build gprofng, the following versions of
> external components are required:
> 
> - Bison 3.7.5, or higher
> 
> so I got a copy of https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-3.7.5.tar.xz, configured, and built it.  I now have
> 
> $ bison --version
> bison (GNU Bison) 3.7.5
> 
> When I make gprofng, I get the strange error message
> 
> $ make
> <snip>
> checking for bison... bison
> checking for bison 3.3 or newer... 3.7.5, bad
> configure: error: Building gprofng requires bison 3.3 or later.
> make[1]: *** [Makefile:6664: configure-gprofng] Error 1
> 
> I would have thought that version 3.7.5 was "newer" than version 3.3.  I would have thought that having the exact version required would ok.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
>                                                … peter
>