On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 02:54:17PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote: > On 2022-Apr-29, at 13:12, Steve Kargl <s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> > wrote: > > > The evenual absence of libc_p.a and libm_p.a will break GCC's > > -pg option in GCC. One will then need to know how to change the > > GCC source or install symlinks for to point *_p.a a the *.a libs. > > > > src/tree/tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc shows the > following that does include those 2 files as ones considered > obsolete (i.e., to be removed) by WITHOUT_PROFILE: >
(snip) > > I expect that this is part of the mechanism that will > ultimately remove those then-out-of-date files from > systems when WITH_PROFILE is no longer supported. > > Metion was made of "[a] similar change is still needed > for GCC" --but I've no clue of the details or status. > Therein lies the problem. None of the people pushing the removal of WITH[OUT]_PROFILE have submitted a patch to fix GCC. Anyone installing a lang/gccXXX port will be met with errors when using -pg. -- Steve
