Changeset 946b3cb in rtems for c/TESTED

Patch from Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@…>:

2. "make profile" doesn't work. It aborts when building host-tools

for embedded targets. I didn't yet have enough time to fix this
problem. AFAIS this problem is related to handling of
LDFLAGS_PROFILE[|_V] in gcc.cfg.in. For host applications, we use
gcc for linking host applications, too. With profiling enabled
CFLAGS_PROFILE_V contains -pg and is used to compile, but
LDFLAGS_PROFILE_V is empty, hence -pg will not be passed to the
linker causing gcc to fail to link, because it can't resolve some
symbols introduced by compiling with -pg.

I am not sure if I can provide a patch for this - Ether it is trivial
to fix or requires basic work on host configuration ;-

Fixing this one was trivial - But hard to trace.

LDFLAGS_PROFILE_V needs to contain the same flags as CFLAGS_PROFILE_V,
if gcc is used for linking (What else should have been expected ?,
:-). The same problem was present for *_DEBUG_V, but apparently wasn't
noticed by anybody, because things didn't break, but were silently
ignored.

I fixed these problems by setting these flags in configure.in whenever
gcc is reported to be the host-compiler. For non-gcc host compilers
"make debug" and "make profile" now becomes the same as an ordinary
"make". This is a hack and addressing this problen could be more
sophisticated, but I don't think it gives much sense to support
compile variants for any host program (Who will ever try to
profile/debug host tools?). Therefore I don't think it's useful
to invest more effort into this problem.