Re: Add MKCTF

[Ryota Ozaki <ozaki-r%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Christos Zoulas 
<christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
> In article 
> <CAKrYomjraa3-OLqh7wMMqH1tpRjzB1OQ9a6VrSkiin+Ltf-TiA%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
> Ryota Ozaki  <ozaki-r%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
>>-=-=-=-=-=-
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm adding a new build variable MKCTF, which
>>was discussed on the chat some days ago.
>>
>>Currently CTF tools are built and used to generate
>>and manipulate CTF data of ELF binaries when
>>we build with MKDTRACE=yes. Unfortunately,
>>current CTF tools don't work on i386/amd64/arm,
>>and that adds a burden to try DTrace by users.
>>
>>The new variable is intended to separate CTF
>>stuffs from MKDTRACE; we can build DTrace
>>solely without worrying about the CTF issues.
>>Fortunately, CTF data are not used yet by
>>current DTrace of NetBSD, so DTrace still
>>works without CTF data.
>>
>>Once CTF issues are solved, we would be
>>able to merge MKCTF to MKDTRACE again
>>but it would not come soon. So I think the
>>workaround is still useful at this point.
>>
>>My patch is attached and also available at
>>http://www.netbsd.org/~ozaki-r/MKCTF.diff .
>
> I am happy with that approach.

Thanks! I will commit it later.

  ozaki-r