On Sun, 2019-11-10 at 21:29 +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 07:56:55PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2019-11-04 at 21:44 +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > [...]
> > > The code for libtracevent lives in the kernel tree at
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git in 
> > > tools/lib/traceevent folder.
> > > And so, it will be great if kernel team will like to package and maintain 
> > > it, if not, then I will
> > > be happy to do it. But, if I am doing it then I will need a sponsor to 
> > > upload it.
> > 
> > If kernel.org's kernel source repository is the canonical location for
> > this code, not just a convenience copy, then the binary package should
> > be built from src:linux and not a separate source package.
> > 
> > I think src:linux already builds the library, but only as a static
> > library that's linked into perf.
> > 
> > I don't know exactly what changes you would need to make, but they
> > should be roughly along these lines:
> > 
> <snip>
> > 4. Generate the debian/libtraceevent<soversion>.symbols file recording
> >    the shared library's exported symbols.
> 
> Thanks for your reply Ben.
> I will try these steps and see how it goes.
> 
> > 5. (Not sure if this is needed.)  Modify
> >    debian/rules.d/tools/perf/Makefile to make perf use the shared
> >    library.  Add libtraceevent<soversion> to the dependencies of
> >    linux-perf-<version> in debian/templates/control.tools-versioned.in.
> 
> This should not be needed as perf does not yet depend on libtraceevent.
> The libtraceevent that perf is creating is only having the plugins.

I'm pretty sure it does; look for "libtraceevent.a" in
<https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=linux&arch=amd64&ver=5.3.9-1&stamp=1573349194&raw=1>.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.

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