I played with this a while ago for cegcc, and got it to work. (Host
environment is either linux or cygwin, target is Windows CE on ARM.)

I have a patch that allows you to specify a different directory than the
host source directory.

That means :
- you compile on a PC, sources in e.g. /home/danny/src/prog.c
- by default, gcc compiles in a path /home/danny/src in which the
  executable will try to store its profile information
- that is not always present on the mobile device
- there is a way to change this directory at run time, but that
  isn't always easy (it isn't on CE)
- so I've added a way to specify a different directory at compile
  time, meaning I can override the directory that gcc puts in the
  object file

I've been wanting to submit the code but didn't get around to it yet.

Should I clean it up and submit ?

	Danny

On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 10:45 +1000, Ben Elliston wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 13:45 -0400, Sanjay Chadha wrote:
> 
> > [schadha@devjava1-fc4 binutils-2.15.91.0.2]$ ./configure
> > --target=mipsel-linux --host==mipsel-linux
> > [schadha@devjava1-fc4 binutils-2.15.91.0.2]$ make
> > 
> > However the compiled gprof was compiled for the host (i386) machine. Any
> > ideas of what other changes may be required to cross compile gprof for
> > the mips machine.
> 
> gprof runs on the host, not on the target (but it reads target object
> code, of course).  In your configure command line above, I see you used
> ==, not =.  Perhaps that is your problem.
> 
> Ben
> 
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