Got an error: Unknown option "DDB_CTF"

Weihang Wang weihang at vt.edu
Mon Nov 22 23:42:29 UTC 2010


Hi,

Thanks again. The transport protocol is not implemented by me, but I need to run this protocol to see the behavior of this protocol. So now I have no idea about the implementation of the transport protocol and don't know whether it could run on later versions than FreeBSD 6.0. I guess what I could do now is try to see whether this protocol could work on FreeBSD later version (8.1 or later?? ). If it works, then everything is fine. If not, maybe I have to find other instrumenting tools instead of DTrace.
Thank you so much.

Best,
W.Wang



On Nov 22, 2010, at 4:31 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Nov 22), Weihang Wang said:
>> On Nov 22, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:
>>> In the last episode (Nov 22), Weihang Wang said:
>>>> I am a totally newbie to FreeBSD. I am building a custom kernel based
>>>> on FreeBSD 6.0 kernel (I have to use this version cause I need to run
>>>> an application which is only available for FreeBSD 6.0).  I conform to
>>>> the handbook to add the following lines in kernel configuration file to
>>>> enable DTrace support:
>>>> 
>>>> options	KDTRACE_FRAME
>>>> options	KDTRACE_HOOKS
>>>> options	DDB_CTF
>>>> makeoptions WITH_CTF=1
>>>> 
>>>> Then I use the following commands to recompile my kernel and install
>>>> this new kernel:
>>>> 
>>>> make buildkernel KERNCONF=KERNELNAME
>>>> make installkernel KERNCONF=KERNELNAME
>>>> 
>>>> The compiling process encounters an error: Unknown option "DDB_CTF", I
>>>> have no idea how to fix this?
>>> 
>>> Just remove all references to CTF; that's for Dtrace support, which doesn't
>>> exist in the 6.* branch.
>>> 
>>> You might also want to try running your application on FreeBSD 8.1 after
>>> installing the misc/compat6x package.  Backwards binary compatibility
>>> support is very good.
>> 
>> Thank you so much for your help. But I am still concerned about the
>> backward compatibility.  First I have to use DTrace to instrument the
>> kernel to do performance analysis.  At the same time, the program I need
>> to build on the FreeBSD is a kind of transport protocol, which is based on
>> the FreeBSD 6.0.  The transport protocol may change the network stack of
>> the kernel networking system, so I do not know whether this would work. 
>> Hope to hear from you.  Thank you very much.
> 
> If your program includes kernel modifications and the modifications only
> apply cleanly to FreeBSD 6, then you may be stuck unless you can port the
> changes to a newer version of FreeBSD.  DTrace support for the kernel went
> into FreeBSD 7.1, and DTrace for user processes will be in 9.0 (with
> backports to 8.2 and 7.4 later).
> 
> If your program implements its transport protocol completely in userland (by
> opening raw sockets for example), then it will probably run on FreeBSD 8.1.
> 
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson at allantgroup.com
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