Hello automakers, Luca suggested Automake could be more helpful with profiling, profile-guided optimization, coverage measurement.
So let's start evaluating the current situation, to get a bit better overview. For the packages using C or C++ which I work on, it suffices to ./configure CFLAGS='-fprofile-generate -O2 ...' make all check # assuming this will produce typical exercise make clean ./configure CFLAGS='-fprofile-use -O2 ...' make all install and at least with fairly recent GCC versions, that works in VPATH builds, too. Similar for --coverage etc. So, I guess my question is: do you have more complicated setups or issues to work around where Automake could help, or where the information that automake already gets may take away some work from you? Other good suggestions? Thanks! Ralf
