Re: Turning off gcov build for embedded processor

[Dan Towner <dant at picochip dot com>]

Nathan,

> Dan Towner wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am writing a gcc port for an embedded processor. The processor will 
> > not be able to support gcov, and currently cannot build the gcov 
> > program at all. However, the configure and build mechanism always try 
> > to make gcov, and hence always fail. Is there a way I can stop the 
> > configure/build mechanism from building gcov?
>
> not at the moment. You'd have to add a --disable-coverage option to
> configure, and then propagate it into Makefile.in to DTRT.
>
> Can you not fix gcov so it compiles?

I guess I will have to. The problem is that the code uses stdio, malloc, 
free, and whole reams of other library functions that we don't support 
on our embedded processor. Though of course, we don't need to create the 
actual functions, just make it appear as though we have.

thanks,

dan.

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