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Re: tests with guru mode and systemtap rpm
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: William Cohen <wcohen at redhat dot com>
- Cc: SystemTAP <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 14 Sep 2005 10:31:14 -0400
- Subject: Re: tests with guru mode and systemtap rpm
- References: <43282BC8.3050705@redhat.com>
wcohen wrote:
> It is good to see additional tests being put into the SystemTap
> testsuite, e.g. systemtap.samples/tcp_connection. The RPMs that come
> out of the build system are built guru mode disabled.
What do you mean "disabled"? Of course it's not on by default,
for that would defeat the purpose.
> Thus, these tests hat require guru mode are going to fail with the
> SystemTap supplied by RPM.
Dejagnu can add "-g" to the spawn command line, and as well, executable
systemtap scripts can put the necessary directive beside the hash-bang.
#! stap -g
> [...] I hope that a number of these tests/examples can eliminate
> the use of guru mode as tapsets and translator support improves.
Indeed.
- FChE