Re: 0.9.5 building on RHEL5 broken

[Maynard J. <may...@us...>]

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> What have these existing users been doing for the last year?  As I've said before, I'm not too keen on adding workarounds for distro bugs, unless it's simple and non-intrusive.  My experience with putzing with configure scripts is that I often break something else.  I'm not in favor of making such a change at this time when we're about to put out a new release.  If these folks need to build from oprofile source versus using the distro-supplied oprofile, then presumably, then can also hack the makefiles so as to disable the building of libopagent.
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> They need to build an own oprofile because  the distro supplied 
> oprofile typically doesn't support their Atom or Nehalem CPUs.
If someone can come up with a workaround (or small patch), we can add an item to the FAQs.

-Maynard
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> At least Nehalem hasn't been shipping in large quantities last year.
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> -Andi
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