Re: [PATCH v2] trace-cmd: Add dependencies to BUILDING section in README

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On 8/19/21 4:42 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
On Fri, 13 Aug 2021 16:25:16 -0300
victorcora98@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

From: Victor Cora Colombo <victorcora98@xxxxxxxxx>

I finally got some time to look at this.

No problem!



KernelShark has instructions in its README on how to get necessary
dependencies to build it. trace-cmd could follow this example and
also add more information on how to build it.

This patch adds instructions to README on how to get necessary libraries
and dependencies to build trace-cmd.

Signed-off-by: Victor Cora Colombo <victorcora98@xxxxxxxxx>
---
  README | 17 +++++++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 1153152..094fce1 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -24,6 +24,23 @@ Lesser General Public License 2.1 (See COPYING.LIB).
BUILDING: +In order to install build dependencies on Ubuntu do the following:
+    sudo apt-get install build-essential git pkg-config -y
+
+In order to install build dependencies on Fedora, as root do the following:
+    dnf install gcc make git pkg-config -y

I would actually add above libtracefs-devel and libtraceevent-devel for
fedora, and possibly libtracefs-dev and libtraceevent-dev for ubuntu /
debian. Oh, I would say that too, as I don't use Ubuntu thus, state "on
Debian / Ubuntu do the following".


+
+To install required dependencies:

Then you can say here.

In case the distribution does not have the required libtracefs and
libtraceevent libraries, install them manually:

Or something to that nature.

-- Steve

That is a great idea, I'll take a look at it.
Thanks again!

-- Victor



+    git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent.git/
+    cd libtraceevent
+    make
+    sudo make install
+
+    git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtracefs.git/
+    cd libtracefs
+    make
+    sudo make install
+
  To make trace-cmd
      make




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