DTrace for FreeBSD - Status Update

[Robert Watson]

On Thu, 25 May 2006, John Birrell wrote:

> I had hoped that one or two of the Google SoC students would contribute to 
> this, but I only received one proposal and that wasn't for anything that 
> would help get DTrace/FreeBSD completed.
>
> There are things people can do to help. Some of them are build related; some 
> are build tool related; some are user-land DTrace specific; and the rest are 
> kernel related. Speak up if you are interested in working on this!

So, I sync'd up the dtrace branch on my new test box, and pretty rapidly ran 
into problems:

cc -o gethost 
-L/usr/obj/usr/home/robert/p4/projects/dtrace/src/tmp/legacy/usr/lib -O2 
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I. 
-I/usr/home/robert/p4/projects/dtrace/src/bin/csh 
-I/usr/home/robert/p4/projects/dtrace/src/bin/csh/../../contrib/tcsh 
-D_PATH_TCSHELL='"/bin/csh"' -DHAVE_ICONV -g 
-I/usr/obj/usr/home/robert/p4/projects/dtrace/src/tmp/legacy/usr/include 
/usr/home/robert/p4/projects/dtrace/src/bin/csh/../../contrib/tcsh/gethost.c
===> bin/sh (obj,build-tools)
cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -DSHELL -I. 
-I/usr/home/robert/p4/projects/dtrace/src/bin/sh -g 
-I/usr/obj/usr/home/robert/p4/projects/dtrace/src/tmp/legacy/usr/include -c 
/usr/home/robert/p4/projects/dtrace/src/bin/sh/mkinit.c
ctfconvert -L VERSION mkinit.o
ctfconvert:No such file or directory
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/robert/p4/projects/dtrace/src/bin/sh.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/robert/p4/projects/dtrace/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/robert/p4/projects/dtrace/src.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/home/robert/p4/projects/dtrace/src.

Sounds like ctfconvert needs to become a build tool?

Robert N M Watson