[ I also added linux-trace-devel, but it was good to Cc LKML too ] On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 16:11:57 +0000 Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I tried to install libtraceevent. and I used the command: > "make DESTDIR=/home/sudip/test prefix=/usr install" from tool/lib/traceevent > > And this is what I get: > sudip@debian:~/test$ pwd > /home/sudip/test > > sudip@debian:~/test$ find . > . > ./usr > ./usr/local > ./usr/local/lib > ./usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu > ./usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig > ./usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libtraceevent.pc > ./usr/lib64 > ./usr/lib64/traceevent > ./usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins > ./usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins/plugin_hrtimer.so > ./usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins/plugin_sched_switch.so > ./usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins/plugin_jbd2.so > ./usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins/plugin_kvm.so > ./usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins/plugin_cfg80211.so > ./usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins/plugin_kmem.so > ./usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins/plugin_scsi.so > ./usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins/plugin_mac80211.so > ./usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins/plugin_function.so > ./usr/lib64/traceevent/plugins/plugin_xen.so > ./usr/lib64/libtraceevent.so > ./usr/lib64/libtraceevent.so.1.1.0 > ./usr/lib64/libtraceevent.a > ./usr/lib64/libtraceevent.so.1 > ./home > ./home/sudip > ./home/sudip/test > ./home/sudip/test/usr > ./home/sudip/test/usr/include > ./home/sudip/test/usr/include/traceevent > ./home/sudip/test/usr/include/traceevent/event-parse.h > ./home/sudip/test/usr/include/traceevent/trace-seq.h > ./home/sudip/test/usr/include/traceevent/kbuffer.h > ./home/sudip/test/usr/include/traceevent/event-utils.h > > I am seeing two problems: > 1) It created another home/sudip/test folder inside /home/sudip/test and > the header files are installed in /home/sudip/test/home/sudip/test/usr/include folder. > They should have been in /home/sudip/test/usr/include. > > 2) I used prefix=/usr but the 'pkgconfig' still went to /usr/local > > Did I do something wrong? No, but you showed that the installation part is poorly tested. I mostly tested just the code from trace-cmd, and even the installation paths from that repo. I should have tested the kernel repo as well, but failed to do this. Thanks for reporting, I need to take a look, or if you want to have a go at it, that would be great too :-) -- Steve