Re: Co-existing of traceevent of trace-cmd and perf

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On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:16:33 +0800
Zamir SUN <sztsian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 9/29/20 9:44 PM, Zamir SUN wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm packaging trace-cmd 2.9 into Fedora.
> > 
> > Back in trace-cmd 2.8, all the plugins are under 
> > $(libdir)/trace-cmd/plugins. While as of trace-cmd 2.9, I find the 
> > traceevent plugins are installed in $(libdir) by default. This brings up 
> > an interesting situation - the perf tool also contains a copy of the 
> > traceevent in the same directory. So this means trace-cmd and perf have 
> > file conflicts. In terms of packaging, this means users can only install 
> > one of them, not in parallel (at least for Fedora). So I'd like to see 
> > if there are existing proposals or suggestions for which one is expected 
> > to be used by other utilities? Or is there any official plan to move one 
> > of them to the other directory?
> > 
> > I'm copying Tzvetomir and Jiri as I think you're the first people for 
> > getting the plugins in this directory for trace-cmd and perf respectively.
> >   
> 
> Sorry, I just saw an email from Steven mentioning there will be a stand 
> alone libtraceevent. However I did not find it in git.kernel.org. So I 
> probably should ask if the stand alone version of libtraceevent is ready 
> now?

No but this gives me incentive to make it so very soon!

-- Steve




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