Re: Bug#726248: sdt.h conflict with kfreebsd-kernel-headers and systemtap-sdt-dev
On 19/10/2013 19:46, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> Unfortunately all potential consumers look for it here currently:
> http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=sys/sdt\.h
For good reason, it seems (see my other mail).
> I'm not sure that a separate package of kfreebsd's sys/sdt.h would be of
> use to anyone. If anything built with it might be incompatible with
> Debian's toolchain anyway?
Agreed. Unless SystemTap can be made ABI-compatible with DTrace, we need
to make a choice about who's going to be the handler for DTRACE_PROBE
calls :-(
> If we use systemtap-sdt-dev's sys/sdt.h, do we at least get something
> that might be functional?
I guess we will get better integration with GDB at the expense of no
integration with the kernel.
Hopefully Mark can elaborate on this.
> Would the proposed arch:all package lose the
> dtrace binary and python dependency and ship just the header file?
I wouldn't worry about that. If we go for SystemTap, the provider of
<sys/sdt.h> wouldn't be Build-Essential anymore.
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Robert Millan
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