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Description of problem:
When instrumenting a shared library for gathering profile information with the -fprofile-generate flag to gcc, the flag must be given _both_ at compile and link time. However when linking a shared library using libtool, libtool strips away this flag.

my foo.c only contains the lines
void foo() {
}


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libtool-1.5.6-4.FC3.2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.[david@trollet profile]$ libtool --mode=compile gcc -c -o foo.lo -fprofile-generate foo.c
 gcc -c -fprofile-generate foo.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/foo.o
 gcc -c -fprofile-generate foo.c -o foo.o >/dev/null 2>&1


So far, so good

2. [david@trollet profile]$ libtool --mode=link gcc  -fprofile-generate -o libfoo.la -rpath /usr/lib foo.lo
rm -fr  .libs/libfoo.a .libs/libfoo.la .libs/libfoo.lai .libs/libfoo.so .libs/libfoo.so.0 .libs/libfoo.so.0.0.0
gcc -shared  .libs/foo.o   -Wl,-soname -Wl,libfoo.so.0 -o .libs/libfoo.so.0.0.0
(cd .libs && rm -f libfoo.so.0 && ln -s libfoo.so.0.0.0 libfoo.so.0)
(cd .libs && rm -f libfoo.so && ln -s libfoo.so.0.0.0 libfoo.so)
ar cru .libs/libfoo.a  foo.o
ranlib .libs/libfoo.a
creating libfoo.la
(cd .libs && rm -f libfoo.la && ln -s ../libfoo.la libfoo.la)

Here, do note how the line starting with 'gcc -shared' is missing the -fprofile-generate flag which will cause the profiling run to fail.
  

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