Profiling scripts

One feature that crept into the Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2 release was the ability for the performance analyzer to follow scripts. It is necessary to set the environment variable SP_COLLECTOR_SKIP_CHECKEXEC to use this feature - as shown below.

bash-3.00$ file `which which`
/bin/which:     executable /usr/bin/csh script
bash-3.00$ collect which
Target `which' is not a valid ELF executable
bash-3.00$ export SP_COLLECTOR_SKIP_CHECKEXEC=1
bash-3.00$ collect which
Creating experiment database test.1.er ...