Re: SystemTap on Fedora 11

[David Smith <dsmith at redhat dot com>]

Maynard Johnson wrote:
> Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>> Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com> writes:
>>
>>> I plan on doing some systemtap development on a Fedora 11 G5 box.
>>> Started out by just installing the F11 systemtap rpm [...]
>>
>> We're hoping to push a new release to F11/rawhide soon, since the
>> prior one is known to have incompatibilities with the kernel.  Please
>> try a build out of systemtap git.
> I tried building and running with source from systemtap git and I'm
> seeing the same parsing errors.  As the instructions at
> http://sources.redhat.com/git/?p=systemtap.git;a=blob_plain;f=README;hb=HEAD
> indicate, I left the F11-supplied systemtap rpm installed.  Is that the
> right thing to do?  I put my own systemtap build in /usr/local.  I also
> tried runing 'make installcheck', and that resulted in many errors.  My
> system kernel level is 2.6.29-0.74.rc3.git3.fc11.ppc64.
> 
> Any other suggestions?

One thing to do is make sure which systemtap you were running.  If you
just ran 'stap', you probably got the one from the F11-supplied
systemtap rpm.  Try running the following command and let us know what
happens:

# /usr/local/bin/stap -ve 'probe begin {printf("hello\n"); exit()}'

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