On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 07:27:33PM +0900, Ryota Ozaki wrote: > Hi, > > I'm adding a new build variable MKCTF, which > was discussed on the chat some days ago. > > Currently CTF tools are built and used to generate > and manipulate CTF data of ELF binaries when > we build with MKDTRACE=yes. Unfortunately, > current CTF tools don't work on i386/amd64/arm, > and that adds a burden to try DTrace by users. > > The new variable is intended to separate CTF > stuffs from MKDTRACE; we can build DTrace > solely without worrying about the CTF issues. > Fortunately, CTF data are not used yet by > current DTrace of NetBSD, so DTrace still > works without CTF data.
The CTF data for the kernel are needed in order to use DTrace on the kernel, no? Thor