[lttng-dev] Is the 0.x LTTng installation tutorial still applicable?

[Vincent Rubiolo]

Hi Alexandre,

Thanks for your reply! Please seem my comments below.

On 03/08/2012 05:57 PM, Alexandre Montplaisir wrote:
> On 12-03-07 05:28 AM, Vincent Rubiolo wrote:
>> Hello LTTng stewards,
>>
>> As part of an internal project here at WindRiver I am attempting to
>> follow the LTTng installation tutorial[1] to put the LTTng kernel
>> patches onto a 2.6.35 kernel of ours. The download link[2] however
>> appear to not work anymore.
>>
>> Could somebody confirm the tutorial steps still apply? I have indeed
>> found that I can go past the download issue by getting the patches
>> from [3] instead.
>>
>> Many thanks for your guidance!
>>
>> Vincent
>>
>> [1] http://lttng.org/tutorial/lttnglttv
>> [2] http://lttng.org/content/download
>> [3] http://lttng.org/download-legacy
>
> Hi Vincent,
>
> How did you arrive to the URL in [1] ?  I don't think anything links to
> that page anymore.

I think I got it by means of a Google query[1]. You're correct in that 
nothing on the site seems to be able to reach the page (I have tried 
hard to browse to it, without success).

> We're due for a bit of cleanup anyway, there's still
> a bunch of dangling pages like that...

Sure. I found it useful anyway, albeit incomplete; which is why I wrote 
my email.

>
> For what it's worth, the source install method should still be valid,

I have made some progress since I posted and can confirm the 
instructions worked for a 2.6.35 kernel. I am currently building it.

I have found the compatibility matrix[2] very useful. A nice improvement 
to it would be a floating table header such as [3] (live example at [4], 
very cool).

> but it the same thing is also be explained in the README of the source
> packages themselves, so that page shouldn't be needed.

Hmm. Which source packages are you referring to? I have downloaded 
ltt-control-0.87-09062010 and its README does not mention the kernel 
side. The associated patches (patch-2.6.35.2-lttng-0.223) do not come 
with any README files I can see.

As I said, I have picked both from [5].

>
> The link in [3] should be the only visible one (it's reachable from the
> new Download page now).

Excellent.

>
> Thanks for the feedback, let us know if you have any other problem.

Sure, I will.

Vincent

[1] 
http://www.google.fr/search?q=lttng+patch+install&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
[2] 
http://git.lttng.org/?p=lttv.git;a=blob_plain;f=doc/developer/lttng-lttv-compatibility.html;hb=HEAD
[3] 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1030043/html-table-headers-always-visible-at-top-of-window-when-viewing-a-large-table
[4] http://cmcqueen1975.bitbucket.org/htmlFloatingTableHeader/tables.html
[5] http://lttng.org/download-legacy

>
>
> Cheers,
>