Considering we're requiring linux-2.6 era kernels, the discussion of header troubles that plagued 2.2 and 2.4 are no longer relevant.
* README-linux: Delete. --- README-linux | 31 ------------------------------- 1 file changed, 31 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 README-linux diff --git a/README-linux b/README-linux deleted file mode 100644 index 62df258..0000000 --- a/README-linux +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ - -Strace has been ported by Branko Lankester <bra...@hacktic.nl> -to run on Linux systems. Since then it has been greatly modified -by various other people. - -If you want to compile strace on a Linux system please make sure that -you use recent kernel headers. Strace needs those to get the proper data -structures and constatns used by the kernel, since these can be -different from the structures that the C library uses. Currently you -will need at least a 2.2.7 or newer kernel. - -To complicate things a bit further strace might not compile if you are -using development kernels. These tend to have headers that conflict with -the headers from libc which makes it impossible to use them. - -There are three ways to compile strace with other kernel headers: -* Specify the location in CFLAGS when running configure - - CFLAGS=-I/usr/src/linux/include ./configure - -* you can tell make where your kernel sources are. For example if you - have your kernelsource in /usr/src/linux, you can invoke make like - this: - - make CFLAGS="\$CFLAGS -I/usr/src/linux/include" - - (the extra \$CFLAGS is there to make sure we don't override any CFLAGS - settings that configure has found). - -* you can link /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm to the - corresponding directories in your kernel source-tree. -- 2.3.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Strace-devel mailing list Strace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/strace-devel
