Here is an ebuild I've just written for OProfile: ---8<----------------------------------------------------------------- # Copyright 1999-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: $ DESCRIPTION="A transparent low-overhead system-wide profiler" HOMEPAGE="http://oprofile.sourceforge.net" SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/oprofile/${P}.tar.gz" LICENSE="GPL-2" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="~x86" # IUSE: it also needs kernel sources but all gentoo users have them IUSE="qt" DEPEND=" >=dev-libs/popt-1.7-r1 >=sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.6-r3 >=sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r1 qt? ( >=x11-libs/qt-3.2.1-r2 )" src_compile() { check_KV local myconf="" myconf="${myconf} --with-x" # note: compilation has only been tested with a 2.4 kernel case $KV in 2.2.*|2.4.*) myconf="${myconf} --with-linux=/usr/src/linux";; 2.5.*|2.6.*) myconf="${myconf} --with-kernel-support";; *) die "Kernel version '$KV' not supported";; esac econf ${myconf} || die "econf failed" local mymake="" sed -i -e "s,depmod -a,:,g" Makefile emake ${mymake} || die "emake failed" } src_install() { local myinst="" myinst="${myinst} MODINSTALLDIR=${D}/lib/modules/${KV}" make DESTDIR=${D} ${myinst} install || die "make install failed" dodoc ChangeLog* README TODO } pkg_postinst() { # media-video/nvidia-kernel does the following: [ -x /usr/sbin/update-modules ] && /usr/sbin/update-modules echo einfo "Now load the oprofile module by running:" einfo " # opcontrol --init" einfo "Then read manpages and this html doc:" einfo " /usr/share/doc/oprofile/oprofile.html" echo } ---8<----------------------------------------------------------------- Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: n/a Actual Results: n/a Expected Results: n/a n/a
Many thanks, added to portage with no changes as dev-util/oprofile-0.7. You should see it on rsync soon. ( compile with linux-2.6 works ok, the modules are part of linus' tree now )
