[CentOS] Is oprofile still working?

Mon Aug 16 12:11:38 UTC 2010
Hywel Richards <hywelbr at googlemail.com>

Mindaugas Riauba wrote:
>>> I notice that you're on 32-bit while I'm on x86_64. That may or may
>>> not be
>>> relevant. I don't have any 32-bit machines around to test on though.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Maybe this is the problem then.
>>
>> What we need is someone else to report that oprofile works on a 32-bit
>> machine to confirm that I'm totally jinxed :-)
>>     
>
>   Check https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467651
>
>   It looks like in CentOS oprofile is built against older version of
> binutils. When I installed the same version of binutils and oprofile
> from RHEL - everything started to work.
>   

Ha! - so it is just a problem with the way that it was compiled for 
CentOS, then (oprofile getting recompiled before binutils-devel somehow?).

So, I got the centos5 SRPM for oprofile, rebuilt it and installed the 
RPM, and hey presto - a working oprofile again (on ia32).

It looks like the current ia32 CentOS oprofile RPM in circulation, then, 
needs replacing with a recompiled one.

Hywel.