FYI: Userspace DTrace MFC to stable/8

[Kostik Belousov]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:03:07AM +0200, Nikolay Denev wrote:
> On 1 Mar, 2011, at 01:33 , Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> > Dear all:
> > 
> > Just an FYI that I've gone ahead and merged userspace DTrace support to FreeBSD 8.x from 9.x.  While it appeared to pass build tests locally, boot and run, etc, this is a non-trivial merge, and it's possible I've messed up.  If so, apologies in advance, and I'll try to resolve any problems as quickly as I can!
> > 
> > And of course, many thanks go to Rui Paulo, who did the port of userspace DTrace to FreeBSD 9.x with support from the FreeBSD Foundation!
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Robert N M Watson
> > Computer Laboratory
> > University of Cambridge
> > 
> 
> That's great news! Many thanks to all that made this possible!
> 
> I have a quick question though, now do I have to rebuild my world with "WITH_CTF" ?
> I'm asking because I did that by mistake some months ago on a RELENG_8 machine, and
> the world that was built had some problems, like gcc giving segfault 11 while compiling world or some ports.
> 
It was a known issue that ctfconvert (I think it is ctfconvert) damages
statically linked binaries. Most likely, it was not fixed yet.
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