ctfconvert dependency...

Marius Nünnerich marius at nuenneri.ch
Thu Mar 11 09:40:39 UTC 2010


On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:26, Shrikanth Kamath <shrikanth07 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Any idea if ctfconvert is needed to run on the cddl and sys/cddl files? My
> understanding here is ctfconvert
> needs to build the ctfdata for the kernel image and the kernel loadable
> modules. If we were to DTrace 'DTrace' then
> we need the ctfdata for the files under cddl/ and sys/cddl, is that correct?

ctf information is needed for everything we want to dtrace. We even
need it for tracing userland stuff but that doesn't work right now for
other reasons.


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