Re: [pgsql-patches] Patch to avoid gprofprofilingoverwrites

korryd@enterprisedb.com wrote:
> > >> What about a "--enable-gprof" (or "--enable-profiling"?) configure
> > >> flag? This could add the appropriate compiler flags to CFLAGS, enable
> > >> LINUX_PROFILE if on Linux, and enable the "gprof/pid" mkdir().
> >
> > > That would really only work for GCC, wouldn't it?
> >
> > Well, yeah, but that's what many of us use anyway.  I would envision it
> > as adding $(PROFILE) to CFLAGS, and then there would be one place
> > to adjust "-pg" to something else for another compiler --- perhaps the
> > template files could be given a chance to change PROFILE to something
> > else.
>
>
> I don't feel competent to muck around with configure.in (sorry, I'm not
> tying to shirk the work, I've just never had any success in writing
> configure/automake/autoconf stuff - I have the "leaping goats" book, but
> I need a small meaningful example to start with).
>
> Can someone else volunteer to make this change?  And then forward the
> patch to me so I can learn something useful about how to change
> configure.in without breaking it?

I can work on this.

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