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On 3/23/22 20:43, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> That said, mentioning the perf tools, I wish the tracing tools would
>> do a bit more package checking and helpful error messages too, rather
>> than just fail with
>>
>>     fatal error: tracefs.h: No such file or directory
>>
>> when (presumably) libtracefs and friends are needed.
> Yes exactly.
> 
> Daniel, care to update the Makefile to check for libtracefs and friends and
> give a more informative message when it fails?
> 
> You can look at the trace-cmd Makefile that does so.

Working on that!

-- Daniel