On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Thor Lancelot Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 07:27:33PM +0900, Ryota Ozaki wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm adding a new build variable MKCTF, which >> was discussed on the chat some days ago. >> >> Currently CTF tools are built and used to generate >> and manipulate CTF data of ELF binaries when >> we build with MKDTRACE=yes. Unfortunately, >> current CTF tools don't work on i386/amd64/arm, >> and that adds a burden to try DTrace by users. >> >> The new variable is intended to separate CTF >> stuffs from MKDTRACE; we can build DTrace >> solely without worrying about the CTF issues. >> Fortunately, CTF data are not used yet by >> current DTrace of NetBSD, so DTrace still >> works without CTF data. > > The CTF data for the kernel are needed in order to use > DTrace on the kernel, no?
DTrace works anyway w/o CTF data. Nonetheless, it lacks some detailed information. We will of course support CTF data at some point. ozaki-r > > Thor
