Re: [patch] Remove sprof default installation

[Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan at redhat dot com>]

Hi Jan,

Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> currently sprof is broken:
>   $ sprof -p ./hello.so ./hello.so.profile
>   sprof: failed to load shared object `./hello.so'
>
> because __RTLD_SPROF is no longer supported by dlopen_doit(), moreover it
> later crashes on corrupted `r_state'.  Bugreported by Olivier Fourdan.
>
> As gprof/-pg/sprof is now obsoleted by oprofile suggesting to start removing
> its support rather than fixing it.
>   

I have just opened yesterday a bugzilla to fix sprof in glibc with a 
proposed patch (see bug#458861)

That patch for glibc is trivial seem to work fine.

Cheers,
Olivier.