http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47793
Summary: Relative path in fprofile-use turns into absolute path Product: gcc Version: 4.6.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: gcov-profile AssignedTo: unassig...@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: martin.gccb...@gmail.com I noticed that I was unable to specify a relative path when generating gcda files: # ${trunk_gcc} -Wall -fprofile-generate=./fdoprof -fprofile-arcs in.c -o trunk.out # ./trunk.out profiling:/./fdoprof:Cannot create directory profiling:/./fdoprof/in.gcda:Skip I believe this was introduced in http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?view=revision&revision=165596 gcc version 4.6.0 20110211 Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu