gprofng not quite ready for prime time?

Ruud van der Pas ruud.vanderpas@oracle.com
Thu Aug 11 15:41:51 GMT 2022


Hi Jan,

> Take the time stamp of the newest file in the doc dir (or a subset thereof)?
> With how git works, this may of course still not be what you want, so the
> next approach then would be to actually query git (as long as you're in a
> git tree) for the newest commit's date touching any of the relevant files.
> Sounds all quite a bit more involved than simply using the time when the
> build was done.

Thanks for the suggestions.

It is indeed somewhat tricky. Let me check what others do regarding
the docs in binutils. If there is sufficient commonality in their approach,
I can just do the same, or at least do something similar.

Kind regards, Ruud


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