Enabling OProfile in the OLPC kernels?

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 14:28 +0100, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> On Mon, March 19, 2007 01:01, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> >> How do we get useful oprofile output with all binaries stripped and no
> >> -debuginfo packages?
> >
> > Don't strip binaries, and provide debuginfo packages during development
> > stages.  Otherwise you'll a) never get symbols, and b) never get source
> > lines are variable names that really help while debugging.
> 
> Yeah, but the olpc rpms contain stripped binaries and
> I've not found debuginfo packages anywhere.

yum install --enablerepo=*-debuginfo foobar-debuginfo

where foobar is the name of an RPM you'd like to get debuginfo for.

Dan


> RedHat also distributes the source rpms, but I've not
> yet figured out how to rebuild them on a Fedora
> development system and producing binaries that would
> work on an OLPC system.
>