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- switch to the System Monitoring perspective and start the monitor for the machine you'll use before attempting to submit a job with Run Configurations, failure to start the monitor may cause the job submit to error out
- for gcov and gprof, the executable file has to be selected each time you open a .gcno or gmon.* file (this seems to be unique to the synchronized project usage)
The contents of $HOME/.bash_profile should match up with the settings you choose from Project->Properties->C/C++Build->Environment_Management
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