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 -- To say that it (his hair) was black and bound up in a ponytail is to miss the opportunity of using the term 'elephantine'. It was hair with personality. -- The Thief Of Time (about the monk, Sato). -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
