On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 09:18:04PM +0100, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support 
wrote:
> 
> Hello Ken,
> 
> If sysprof is not installed, and is not disabled, it creates a blank git 
> "tree" and downloads sysprof and compiles it.  I did not investigate if it 
> actually installs sysprof, or if it keeps it private to itself.
> 

What it wants is a static library, so links the part it wants.  I
can't find the reference at the moment, but it was to do with
profiling.

> I notice that other packages are also now including sysprof as run-time 
> requirements, unless of course it is disabled.  It was the not knowing what 
> may happen with a running system that has sysprof disabled in libsoup that 
> had me concerned.
> 

I had not noticed that, but I see that gentoo mention it for glib2.

> I did apply the patch mentioned and recompiled sysprof and libsoup 
> successfully, so libsoup now has sysprof support.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christopher.

Thanks.  I might revisit my decision to drop it, and therefore to
also drop libdazzle, in my own (non-gnome) builds.  But for the
moment I'm trying to get my head around other things.

ĸen
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