[PATCH V4] gprofng: a new GNU profiler

[Vladimir Mezentsev]

On 3/7/22 13:57, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 1:42 PM Vladimir Mezentsev via Binutils
> <binutils@sourceware.org> wrote:
>>    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.
> You should skip this test if JDK isn't installed.
>
>

  In this case, we will not see that gprofng was built without  java 
profiling support.

-Vladimir