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Re: SystemTap release 0.9.8


Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com> writes:

> It seems that you are right - all the error messages came from lines
> like this:
>
> c->last_stmt = "identifier '__ip_sock_saddr' at /home/diego/c\703\663digo/systemtap/binarios/share/systemtap/tapset/ip.stp:27:10";

This bug should be fixed in our git commit b818f04.

>    Pass 4: compilation failed.  Try again with another '--vp 0001' option
>
> "-vp 0001" is not going to fix the problem, so it's not a very useful msg
> for users. I suggest something like:
>
> "Pass 4: Systemtap found an error. Try again with another '--vp 0001' option
> to get more details. See http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/HowToReportBugs
> if you want to send a bug report"

To the extent that pass-4 errors represent internal rather than user
errors, more verbosity like this may make sense.

I didn't see your first note, when you mentioned that you have had
difficulties with getting systemtap to run.  What other problems have
you had?


- FChE


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