Re: [GIT PULL] tracing/tooling: Fixes for v6.8-rc4

[Daniel Bristot de Oliveira]

On 2/13/24 18:48, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:32:26 -0800
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 at 14:00, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Tracing tooling updates for 6.8-rc4:  
>>
>> Bah. I've pulled this, but since I did a new system install due to a
>> disk upgrade some time ago, I once again don't have libtracefs-devel
>> installed.
>>
>> And guess what? The dependency rules are - once again  - completely
>> broken, and trying to build this gets the bad old unhelpful error
>>
>>    latency-collector.c:26:10: fatal error: tracefs.h: No such file or directory
>>
> 
> Hmm, that's not from this pull request. But still needs to be fixed.

I did not catch that because it is in the tracing dir, but not on rtla. It is an old
sample code, still... bad it was not covered. Sorry for that :-(.

> 
>> with no help for the user.
>>
>> Yes, I know what to do. That isn't the point. And no, this isn't new
>> to this pull request, it's just that on this machine I haven't tried
>> building the tracing tools in a while.
>>
>> Let's not make the user experience for people who want to do kernel
>> builds any worse than it has to be.
>>
>> Side note: instead of the (clearly broken) special Makefile rules, can
>> you please just take a look at the perf code instead?  In fact, maybe
>> it's time for the kernel tooling people to try to unify and come to an
>> agreement about these things, and share more of the code.
>>
>> Because unlike the tracing tools, the perf tools seem to generally get
>> this part of the build system right, despite (or probably due to)
>> having a lot *more* (and more complex) library dependencies.
> 
> Daniel is mostly maintaining this work.
> 
> Daniel, can you talk with Arnaldo and be able to collaborate with him on
> consolidating the build process?

Sure, I have a good relation with Arnaldo, and he is aware of my work as well.

-- Daniel