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Date:      Sat, 11 Oct 2008 09:01:50 -0400
From:      "Ansar Mohammed" <ansarm@gmail.com>
To:        "'Jeremy Chadwick'" <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: proflibs
Message-ID:  <04b301c92ba1$8704fd70$950ef850$@com>
In-Reply-To: <20081011095851.GA57170@icarus.home.lan>
References:  <047701c92b4e$512236d0$f366a470$@com> <20081011095851.GA57170@icarus.home.lan>

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Are they needed for compiling anything from ports?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Chadwick [mailto:koitsu@FreeBSD.org]
> 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 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 within or between two functions).
> 
> They're for developers.
> 
> --
> | Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
> | Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
> | UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA |
> | Making life hard for others since 1977.              PGP: 4BD6C0CB |




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