Re: tradcpp requires CTRACE/DTF?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Paul Goyette wrote:

> I just installed a new NetBSD 7.99.26 kernel and userland, which was build 
> _without_ DTRACE and CTF.
>
> Then I discovered that building the devel/tradcpp package tries to use 
> ctfconvert utility!
>
> Is this package supposed to require CTF?  Is there some better way to check 
> and report, other than having to interpret error messages like
>
> 	--- files.o ---
> 	ctfconvert -g -L VERSION files.o
> 	ctfconvert: not found
> 	*** [files.o] Error code 127
>
> ??
>
> For now, I guess I'll have to reenable DTRACE and CTF in my userland build so 
> I can install my various required packages...

This would seem to have nothing to do with tradcpp - that just happens 
to be the first of my packages to encounter this problem ...

It seems that CTFCONVERT is being defined somewhere, and is being used 
in /usr/share/mk/bsd.prog.mk but I cannot for the life of me figure out 
how CTFCONVERT is getting defined.  The only assignment I can find is at 
the end of bsd.own.mk

	# Override with tools versions if needed
	.if ${MKCTF:Uno} != "no" && !defined(NOCTF)
	CTFCONVERT=     ${TOOL_CTFCONVERT}
	CTFMERGE=       ${TOOL_CTFMERGE}
	.endif

I've defined MKCTF=no in my /etc/mk.conf file as follows

	MKDTRACE=no
	MKCTF=no

so CTFCONVERT should not be defined.


I feel that I'm missing something that should be glaringly obvious, but 
I just don't see it.


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