From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21262 invoked by alias); 15 Mar 2006 14:15:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 21254 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Mar 2006 14:15:47 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (HELO wproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.184.192) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:15:46 +0000 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 67so176706wri for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 06:15:43 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CLZASka7HIklI8OFfQCzZxLWpqgD6md77wqA16zlvCypKQ8Vy0logoxhJW/P72GjnGVynJ18bG2VO4sxKpLdrCIb3cwHiRUoGOKyBkGysQmtcR8NWOOZMyyjQThNi07K5/CgVKHgqdmp/e52tE0KJWUJBfao370v7JcBP0saGgs= Received: by 10.35.99.14 with SMTP id b14mr421787pym; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 06:15:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.128.5 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 06:15:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:15:00 -0000 From: "Michael Ellerman" To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Subject: Re: elfutils on Debian? Cc: systemtap@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact systemtap-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: systemtap-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-q1/txt/msg00794.txt.bz2 On 15 Mar 2006 09:00:02 -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > > "Michael Ellerman" writes: > > > I tried to build systemtap (from today's cvs) on Debian, but it > > needs elfutils > > How do you suggest the src/README file's build instructions > could be made more prominent? In all seriousness, by putting it on the website next to the download info. These days I basically expect a package to ./configure && make, and at the very least require a few apt-get installs of various dev packages. I turned to google before I looked at the README. > > I don't go in for licensing arguments [...] > > elfutils licensing is due for a revamp shortly. Cool, if this stuff is ever going to compete with Dtrace it needs to be everywhere, so a license that doesn't annoy the Debian faithful would be great. cheers