The "gmon.out" file is getting created everywhere

Question

Every time I run a program, or exit a shell. There will be a "gmon.out" file generated at the working directory. How to stop this behavior?

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 02 '18 at 08:23

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I have just compiled emacs 24.5 and it creates "gmon.out" file while exits. No one option to configure (except of --without-all) helped. This is what helps if no resorting to the --without-all:

In the file "configure.ac" replace line

PROFILING_CFLAGS="-DPROFILING=1 -pg"

with the following

PROFILING_CFLAGS="-DPROFILING=0 -pg"

Create new "configure" by running command autoconf.
Use new "configure" for compilation, as usual.

edited Jul 02 '18 at 08:23

Ahmed Ashour

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answered Oct 23 '15 at 20:49

Alexander

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I don't see any mention of `emacs` in the question ("Every time I run a program, or exit a shell") – DavidPostill Oct 23 '15 at 21:09
I have the same problem but I do not use emacs. Something keeps on creating gmon.out files. Very annoying. :( – shevy Oct 25 '17 at 20:16

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 02 '18 at 08:09

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If this is being generated in each and every directory, most probably, your base python was installed with the --enable-profiling flag. You can confirm this using:

Python 3:

python3 -m sysconfig -c 'print(sysconfig.get_config_var("CONFIG_ARGS"))'

Python 2:

python2 -c "import distutils.sysconfig; print distutils.sysconfig.get_config_vars()"

Recompiling the same without profiling should resolve the problem.

answered Jul 02 '18 at 08:09

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forgot about that and it drove me nuts until now ;-) ty! – PJJ Mar 23 '21 at 09:50

The "gmon.out" file is getting created everywhere

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