Experience from writing trace_inputs.py

[Marc-Antoine Ruel]

2014-03-21 11:08 GMT-04:00 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv at altlinux.org>:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:49:55AM -0400, Marc-Antoine Ruel wrote:
> [...]
>> Yes I'm on 4.5.20. I mildly recall hitting problems when trying to
>> compile strace's tip of tree since I think (?) it required a newer gcc
>> version than the stock one (4.6.3) in 12.04. That was in 2012. At that
>> point, I wanted the tool to be usable as is for devs so I decided
>> against requiring a newer version.
>
> The fact is that strace (I tested 4.7 and 4.8) builds with gcc 4.6.3.
> By choosing strace 4.5.20 (released 4 years ago) you miss a lot of fixes
> and enhancements.

Oh, don't rule out PEBKAC, which is likely the most valid explanation.


> [...]
>> Thanks, I didn't know about strace-log-merge.
>
> This script was added in strace 4.7.

That explains, thanks.

M-A