FS#17855 - [glibc] and libmemusage

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dimitrios Apostolou (jimis) - Friday, 15 January 2010, 18:34 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 16 January 2010, 00:27 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Allan McRae (Allan)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

glibc comes with a very nice tool, libmemusage. To try it just run

LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libmemusage.so executable

However to enjoy the full functionality of this tool we also need "memusagestat" and "memusage.sh", from malloc/ directory in glibc tree. The ugly thing is that memusagestat needs libgd to compile, and that's too much for a dependency of glibc.

So I suggest to create a separate package "memusage" with those three files from glibc: libmemusage.so, memusage.sh, memusagestat.


What do you think?
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Saturday, 16 January 2010, 00:27 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  See comment
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 16 January 2010, 00:26 GMT
The main problem here is that split packages can not go in different repos. So this would need to be done in a separate PKGBUILD from glibc. So, I suggest makeing one for the AUR and if popularity warrants, I will move it to [extra].

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