[PATCH V4] gprofng: a new GNU profiler

[Vladimir Mezentsev]

  Hi Nick,

On 3/4/22 05:53, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Vladimir,
>
>>   We have pushed these changes here:
>>      url: https://github.com/oracle/binutils-gdb.git/
>>      branch: oracle/gprofng-v4-1
>
> OK, so using those sources, I built a set of the binutils binaries
> without any special configuration options, ie:
>
>   configure -- quiet
>
> and then I built gprofng and the other binutils tools.  This worked
> OK, but when I tried to run the gprofng testsuite only a few tests
> appeared to run:
>
>   Running gprofng/testsuite/gprofng.display/display.exp ...
>   ERROR: compilation of test program in jsynprog failed
>
>         === gprofng Summary ===
>
>   # of expected passes        14
>   # of unresolved testcases    1

  It is expected.  JDK is not installed.


>
> Which does not look right.  But then I remembered that I needed to
> enable shared builds, so I tried:
>
>   configure --quiet --enable-shared
>
> and this produced even worse test results:
>
>   Running gprofng/testsuite/gprofng.display/display.exp ...
>   ERROR: compilation of test program in jsynprog failed
>   ERROR: compilation of test program in mttest failed
>   ERROR: compilation of test program in mttest failed
>   ERROR: compilation of test program in mttest failed
>   ERROR: compilation of test program in mttest failed
>   ERROR: compilation of test program in mttest failed
>   ERROR: compilation of test program in mttest failed
>   ERROR: compilation of test program in mttest failed
>   ERROR: compilation of test program in synprog failed
>   ERROR: compilation of test program in synprog failed
>   ERROR: compilation of test program in synprog failed
>   ERROR: compilation of test program in synprog failed
>   ERROR: compilation of test program in synprog failed
>   ERROR: compilation of test program in synprog failed
>   ERROR: compilation of test program in synprog failed
>
>         === gprofng Summary ===
>
>   # of unresolved testcases    15
>
> The jsynprog and synprog failures is probably expected, since I do not
> have the JDK installed, but the mttest compilation fails because I am
> not testing an installed version of gprofng:
>
> /dev/shm/delme/gprofng/gprofng/tmpdir/root/usr/local/bin/gprofng: 
> error while loading shared libraries: libgprofng.so.0: cannot open 
> shared object file: No such file or directory
>
>
> It would be really nice if I could test a built-but-not-installed
> version of the sources....

  Done.

Please review:
   url:     https://github.com/oracle/binutils-gdb.git/
   branch:  oracle/gprofng-v4-2

Thank you,
-Vladimir


>
> Cheers
>   Nick
>