Re: [cocci] Analysing software build processes

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>]

On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 12:40:59PM +0200, Markus Elfring wrote:
> >> Can the analysis become easier anyhow according to questionable software run time characteristics?
> >
> > I don't understand what this means.
> 
> Do you know further profiling tools?
> 
> Example:
> https://bashdb.sourceforge.net/remake/

The problem seems to be entirely inside ocamlopt.opt, so I don't
understand how tracing make will help.

> You managed to generate a flamegraph with a special software build process.
> Can we benefit any more from such data representations?

There's no "special software build process".  The flamegraph was
collected by running 'perf record -a -g' on the machine while
ocamlopt.opt was compiling a single file, and converting the perf data
to a flamegraph using Brendan's tools here:
https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph

Rich.

> Would you like to help to achieve out of source builds
> for affected programs?
> 
> Regards,
> Markus

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