Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:53:11 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] trace-cmd: add the ability to install libtracecmd
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:22:45 -0400
Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to build some custom tracing tools on top of trace-cmd but they
> aren't really usefull outside of Facebook so I don't want to shove them into the
> actual trace-cmd project.  Instead I'd like to be able to just build libtracecmd
> and install that as well as the necessary header files and just link my tools
> against that.  I'm shit at userspace stuff like this, so I've just hacked
> something together that works for me.  I'm mostly hoping somebody will look at
> the Makefile horribleness that I came up with and tell me how to do it right (or
> better yet do it for me!)  The second patch just cleans up some stuff to make
> the shared library more library esque.  Any feedback would be great.  Thanks,
> 

I'm shit at userspace too ;-)  I just like simple makefiles and other
non "autocrap" stuff.

Anyway, I did plan on getting a libtracecmd out someday (at a bottom of
a very long todo list), so I'm all game for this. I was hoping to get
libtraceevent out first. That's now homed in the kernel tools
directory and I've been porting stuff to and from trace-cmd for that as
well. But there's still a bit of work on that front.

I'll have to take a look at your patches and see how they are after I
get some other things out of the way first.

-- Steve
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