[PATCH V4] gprofng: a new GNU profiler

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2022, Jose E. Marchesi via Binutils wrote:

> > It looks like you configured build  without --enable-shared.
> > If yes, this is expected.
> 
> Woudn't it be better to skip building gprofng in case no --enable-shared
> is specified at `configure' time?

 Is it actually necessary to require `--enable-shared' in the first place 
for the program to work?

 The thing is there is (otherwise) little point in using the option with 
binutils, given that both libbfd and libopcodes are internal libraries not 
for general use and neither provides a stable ABI, so every revision would 
have to be separately installed if any external programs were to use them.

 Therefore having these libraries built as DSOs causes all the drawbacks 
of dynamic loading while no advantages of same are virtually used, and 
consequently I believe hardly anyone uses such a configuration.

  Maciej