Hi, Hugo Herbelin wrote[1]:
> As witnessed by a search on the web, the meaning of the error > message "Profiling timer expired" is difficult to understand. I > guess, without being fully sure though, that it is caused by the > reception of a SIGPROF by make, what (apparently) means that gprof > has been used in some recipe. Is that correct? If yes, couldn't a > message like "Received the SIGPROF signal when running recipe" or > "Received profiling timer expiration from command %s" with the name > of the command, or whatever you think is better appropriate, be > preferable. Somehow, the same applies to the "Virtual timer expired" > message. > > The problem has actually been raised on the French translation > project mailing list, the message being too difficult to understand > in English to be correctly translated. Thoughts? [1] http://bugs.debian.org/601474 _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
