I have verified that this package works for alpha. Please add the ~alpha KEYWORDS to dev-util/oprofile-0.9
I tried dev-util/oprofile-0.9.1 on my alpha using the examples ( http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/examples/ ) on the oprofile website. The following example caused a segfault: # opannotate --source --assembly `which oprofiled` I have profiling and oprofile support compiled into my 2.6.15 vanilla-sources kernel. I started oprofiled with the following commands: # opcontrol --vmlinux=/usr/src/linux/vmlinux # opcontrol --start Below is the output of running opannotate in gdb: (gdb) set args --source --assembly `which oprofiled` (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/opannotate --source --assembly `which oprofiled` Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. Cannot access memory at address 0x20049e4000000000 (gdb) bt Cannot access memory at address 0x20049e4000000000 (gdb) # emerge -vp oprofile These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] dev-util/oprofile-0.9.1 +qt 0 kB # emerge info Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/alpha/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.15 alpha) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15 alpha EV56 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 alpha-unknown-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="alpha" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mieee -O2 -mcpu=ev56 -pipe" CHOST="alpha-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mieee -O2 -mcpu=ev56 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks nostrip sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/gentoo/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/gentoo/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.ca.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="alpha X aac aalib aim alsa arts audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt cups curl eds encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg flac font-server foomaticdb gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml icq imlib ipv6 jabber jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww lua mad mhash mikmod mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn nas ncurses nls nocd nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl shorten sndfile spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis wxgtk1 xml2 xmms xv xvid yahoo zlib linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL
Oprofile seems to have deeper issues on alpha even than tcort points out and is poorly supported upstream. Closing the bug as wontfix.