Re: Getting libtraceevent into a packaged library

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve,

On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 4:01 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What's the next step to get this into a package so that perf,
> trace-cmd, power-top, rasdaemon, uftrace, and whatever does not need to
> have its own copy of the code, but instead link to it.
>
> Note, the interface has changed since other tools copied it, and I'm
> willing to help anyone out in porting to the package.

For uftrace, I think it needs to keep the copy of the code for a while
since it should support older versions of distros as well.
I'll add a runtime dependency check for libtraceevent and use
the new APIs if exists.

Thanks,
Namhyung