At r212060, but /usr/bin/drace and /usr/sbin/lockstat still depend on libz.so.5

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Mon Sep 6 14:47:45 UTC 2010


On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, jhell wrote:

>> After r210693, these utilities are built for i386 and amd64 only. Thereby 
>> you have stale binaries installed from older sources.
>
> Lol this is the first I have read about this & comes as quite the surprise 
> that its not being built on top of the platform/arch that it was designed to 
> work on. Given this is FreeBSD and !*Solaris its understandable to a certain 
> point but still...

I for one eagerly look forward to the day where we can get DTrace working on 
MIPs, which is a widely-used architecture in the network device / appliance / 
etc community.

Robert


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