I wish to use CTF conversion with perf. From the scarce information around, I've figured out that I need to recompile perf.
I've installed the epel repository and used yum to install
babeltrace and libbabeltrace
for the run time as well as
libunwind-devel slang-devel libbabeltrace-devel and asciidoc
for compilation.
I cloned git.kernel.org (as alternative I also tried github.com/torvalds) and used
LIBBABELTRACE=1 make
to build the perf with babeltrace support. However, I get the error:
Makefile.config:780: No libbabeltrace found, disables 'perf data' CTF format support, please install libbabeltrace-dev[el]/libbabeltrace-ctf-dev
So I try adding LIBBABELTRACE_DIR with /usr but this, too, fails. Checking out the Makefile.conf, I see that the configuration is looking in the wrong places: it is set up to use a locally compiled babeltrace with well defined subdirectories (include and lib), but these are NOT used when installing from rpm (yum). The rpm places them in /usr/include/babeltrace and /usr/lib64.
Patching the Makefile also doesn't help.
So, short of being forced to use a locally compiled babeltrace, what options do I have?
This is for a cluster of 26 nodes and I really would prefer a simple 'yum install' as this simplifies restaging nodes when the get corrupted (we do research with them and regularily corrupt stuff) and does not require setting specific environments.
ADDENDUM:
I tried compiling babeltrace from https://github.com/efficios/babeltrace.git: this, too, fails with the error:
babeltrace-cfg-cli-args.c:2390:29: error: ‘POPT_ARG_LONGLONG’ undeclared (first use in this function)
and, surely enough, popt.h does not define POPT_ARG_LONGLONG.
Thanks in advance.
