[lttng-dev] Patch for lttng tools to build on Mac OSX 10.11.6

[Jérémie Galarneau]

On 24 May 2017 at 10:57, Michael Jeanson <mjeanson at efficios.com> wrote:
> On 2017-05-24 10:52, Jérémie Galarneau wrote:
>> On 23 May 2017 at 09:50, Dávid Beck <david.beck.priv at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Jérémie,
>>>
>>> I guess this is my lack of lttng understanding.
>>>
>>> I wanted to play around with relayd on Mac by having a Linux box generating
>>> the traces and give it a remote relayd for storing the traces locally on my
>>> Mac.
>>>
>>> I was thinking that I don't need a local sessiond on the Mac for this, do I?
>>
>> Exactly. The relayd is the only daemon that is needed to receive
>> traces remotely.
>>
>>>
>>> To answer your question I want to play around with Rust and Lttng on Mac
>>> because I have a few ideas of how to generate a few statistical performance
>>> metrics from the traces. Since this is a midnight project I have the luxury
>>> to do it in a language that I like as opposed to Java (the viewer) or
>>> C/Python (Babeltrace). So eventually I want to build an event collector in
>>> Rust, and to test the data flow I thought it is good to have the relayd on
>>> Mac.
>>
>> Good to hear. Don't hesitate to share any progress you make, we're
>> always interested!
>>
>> Jérémie
>>
>>>
>>> Thank you, David
>
> I could make a patch that sets the correct defaults on macOS and other
> similar platforms where we only support building the relayd. Thoughts?

Good idea! It will certainly be less error-prone.

Jérémie

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> Michael
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