[PATCH V2] gprofng: a new GNU profiler

[Ruud van der Pas]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the additional feedback.

Great to hear the bison issue seems to be resolved now.

It is also very good to see that Vladimir’s suggestion fixed
the build problem!

Thanks very much for trying.

> A constructive suggestion:

Thanks!

> Publish a log, from cloning the repo,
> through building and installing gprofng, and a sample collection of an
> experiment and analysis of the experiment. I see the gprofng/doc
> directory, which has a user's guide, but I don't see anything like a
> "builder's guide".

That’s right and this is a good point. We will address this.

We will also write a blog, but that may take a while to be published.
In the mean time, the user’s guide should get people going asap.

It is more like a mini tutorial and has the goal to get a first
profile asap. The second page (aside from the TOC, etc) has some
information on this (section 2.3 Steps Needed to Create a Profile).
Section 3.1.2 then shows the process using a real example code.
Especially this section has very specific information how to get
started.

The build does not generate a PDF from the Texinfo source, only
a .info file, but we can make a PDF available for download.

Alternatively, you can use Texinfo to do this yourself, but you
need version 6.7 for that to work.

  On my system, a straightforward “texi2pdf -E gprofng.texi” does
  the job.

I can also mail the PDF to this list (it is about 256 KB in size), but
I’m not sure whether that is acceptable.

Kind regards, Ruud