is dtrace usable?

[John Baldwin]

On Saturday 06 March 2010 11:00:12 am Robert Watson wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> 
> >> Take a look at the DTrace configuration information here:
> >>
> >>    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/dtrace.html
> >
> > I've just reread it (despite the fact that I already used it). Some
> > comments:
> >
> > Last time I tried, I didn't see any problems by adding
> >  makeoptions     WITH_CTF=yes
> > to the kernel config instead of doing
> >  make WITH_CTF=1 kernel
> >
> > Did I miss something, and if not, shouldn't we tell about the
> > makeoptions part instead (a kernel rebuild later will not cause
> > trouble when someone forgets to do the WITH_CTF part as it is already
> > in the kernel makefile)?
> 
> I'll leave John to answer this one, CC line broadended.

I would be very surprised if 'makeoptions WITH_CTF=yes' worked.  The many
times I and others have tried it it did not work.  Do you have a log of your
build showing the ctfconvert and ctfmerge command lines?

-- 
John Baldwin