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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>
Cc: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>, systemtap@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFC: improve build-id mismatch error reporting
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0md3evtlz1.fsf@fche.csb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84iponih99.fsf@sauna.l.org> (Timo Juhani Lindfors's message of "Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:29:38 +0300")

Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi> writes:

> [...]
> The code compares UTS_RELEASE first and only then looks at
> UTS_VERSION. Do you still think it makes sense to print UTS_RELEASE in
> the UTS_VERSION mismatch case? (as in that case UTS_RELEASE matched
> correctly).

Yes, probably, to give user more hints.


> Autoconf test won't work since kernel versions can change after
> systemtap has been built?
> I looked around a bit but I'm not quite sure how to test this runtime.

Aha, but we have a run-time autoconf scheme (cribbed originally from
some vmware makefiles).  See buildrun.cxx, runtime/autoconf-*.

- FChE

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-20 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-13  7:54 Timo Juhani Lindfors
2011-09-13  8:38 ` Mark Wielaard
2011-09-20 11:30   ` Timo Juhani Lindfors
2011-09-20 12:52     ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2011-09-21  9:17       ` Timo Juhani Lindfors
2011-09-21  9:19         ` [PATCH] Tell the user if UTS_VERSION does not match running kernel Timo Juhani Lindfors

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