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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: "linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org" 
	<linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tstoyanov@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: trace-cmd python
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 09:44:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190115094451.119784d5@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b8e933bd8fc5f6a1aac94beced2ee75b8729975b.camel@sipsolutions.net>

On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 14:09:30 +0100
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:


> Seems to work more or less.
> 
> Not sure how I managed to install it into a custom subdirectory of my
> $HOME before, and make it load plugins - I can't seem to figure out the
> right combination of prefix= and DESTDIR= anymore.

DESTDIR is where you want to install it for moving it to another
machine. If you plan on running trace-cmd on the same machine, but
having it look elsewhere, then just using prefix should be enough.

> 
> If I symlink it to a place where trace-cmd actually looks for it then I
> get errors in python saying pevent_record_data_get() is not defined, but

Looks to be an old object that it's linking with, as we replaced all
"pevent_" with "tep_".

> could be that I'm not importing something right ...
> 
> What's a good way to install it into a custom directory without
> affecting the whole machine?

The prefix tells the build to have the executables search that path.
The DESTDIR is for installing in a particular location that you will
move that code to another machine.

e.g.

  make prefix=/usr/local DESTDIR=/tmp/tracecmd install

Will install the executables in /tmp/tracecmd, but when you run those
executables, they will want to look in the /usr/local path.

It should also always search your home directory in ".trace-cmd/plugins"

-- Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-15 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1524143246.3024.21.camel@sipsolutions.net>
2019-01-04  3:43 ` trace-cmd python Steven Rostedt
2019-01-09 20:36   ` Steven Rostedt
2019-01-15 13:09     ` Johannes Berg
2019-01-15 14:44       ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2019-01-19  9:12         ` Johannes Berg

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