Are they needed for compiling anything from ports?
-Original Message-
From: Jeremy Chadwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: October 11, 2008 5:59 AM
To: Ansar Mohammed
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: proflibs
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:06:11PM -0400, Ansar Mohammed
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:06:11PM -0400, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
Can anyone explain what are the proflibs on the install media, and what they
are for?
They're special versions of all the libraries that come with FreeBSD
which contain profiling code (code for determining the amount of time
spent
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 09:01:50AM -0400, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
Are they needed for compiling anything from ports?
I have yet to find a port that *requires* profiled libraries.
They are only needed for developers wishing to benchmark code
(determine how long the system/processor stays within a
