Re: [PATCH V4] gprofng: a new GNU profiler

["H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>]

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.

>
> >
> > 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
> >
>


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H.J.