DTrace probes for python 2.7.7
Mark Johnston
markj at freebsd.org
Wed Jul 16 04:14:49 UTC 2014
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 07:40:07PM +0100, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
> On 9 June 2014 19:28, Mark Johnston <markj at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > This is probably because the build is running dtrace -G without the
> > dtrace kernel modules loaded. This shouldn't be a problem, but
> > currently is because dtrace(1) parses the scripts in /usr/lib/dtrace
> > and errors out if dtrace isn't available in the kernel. Things like
> > "#pragma depends_on" don't work, and there seem to be bugs in the
> > error reporting of libdtrace; one ends up with the error messages
> > above.
> >
> > I'd like to fix this by changing dtrace -G to not process scripts in
> > the libdir, but I'm not yet sure what the implications of this are. I
> > will ask on the dtrace-discuss list soon.
> >
> > In the meantime, a somewhat unsatisfactory workaround would be to just
> > kldload dtraceall before starting the build.
> >
> > -Mark
>
> Indeed, that was it, with dtraceall module loaded on r266655 VM's,
> everything fails with the same error now.
>
> "dtrace: failed to compile script Include/pydtrace.d: line 26: typedef
> redeclared: __uint8_t"
I've since discovered that the correct way to solve this problem is by
adding "-xnolibs" to the dtrace -G flags.
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