[OE-core] Profiling binaries?

[Jack Mitchell]

On 22/10/12 14:23, Samuel Stirtzel wrote:
> 2012/10/22 Steffen Sledz <sledz at dresearch-fe.de>:
>> On 22.10.2012 15:12, Samuel Stirtzel wrote:
>>> 2012/10/22 Steffen Sledz <sledz at dresearch-fe.de>:
>>>> Just a short question: Does oe[-core] provide a generic method to create packages containing binaries/libraries with profiling support?
>>>>
>>> Depending on your platform you could use Valgrind [1], or to be more
>>> specific Callgrind [2].
>>>
>>> The recipe is in .../openembedded-core/meta/recipes-devtools/valgrind/
>>> you can check there if your arch/platform is supported.
>>>
>>> [1] http://valgrind.org/
>>> [2] http://valgrind.org/docs/manual/cl-manual.html
>> My question was more related to gcc -pg, gprof & Co.
>>
> Sorry forgot to mention that,
> you can use IMAGE_FEATURES += "dev-pkgs"
>

Section 5.15 has some interesting tidbits of profiling. There are a few 
5,x sections so look at them all the find the profiling one ;)

http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/latest/mega-manual/mega-manual.html

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   Jack Mitchell (jack at embed.me.uk)
   Embedded Systems Engineer
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