Hi, I've been using trace-cmd 2.9.1 from a yocto build but I want to try out the sql synthetic events ultil and it looks like I need to go to the latest to get that. After reading this: https://www.spinics.net/lists//linux-trace-devel/msg08977.html .... thanks Steven for rescuing the orphans but I guess I'm a red-headded step child trying to cross-compile all of this (on Ubuntu 20.04 machine) for a iMX8MM SoC. And you're right, Makefiles do suck! Especially ones you didn't write yourself and you try to figure out what others were trying to do. I'm struggling to cross-compile everything. I checked out the latest libtraceevent and that cross-compiled ok (I'm using a sdk I built from Yocto ex: source /opt/poky.3.1.7/environment-setup-aarch64-poky-linux) but the install wouldn't work until I used DESTDIR to point the install somewhere other than Ubuntu directories. I checked out libtracefs and it wouldn't build until I fooled around and set TEST_LIBTRACEEVENT to point specifically to the libtraceevent.pc file in the directory used in libtraceevent DISTDIR path I set. Once I got past that I started having issues with libtracefs failing to find include files (event-parse.h, trace-seq.h etc.) that lived in the libtraceevent repo. I created a symlink for one of them but then ran into others and gave up figuring I was going about this wrong way and it was time to admit defeat and just ask how you cross compile this without building packages for Ubuntu. Thanks, Brian