[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 01/14] trace: Add trace-events file for declaring trace events

[malc]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Blue Swirl wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > This patch introduces the trace-events file where trace events can be
> > declared like so:
> >
> > qemu_malloc(size_t size) "size %zu"
> > qemu_free(void *ptr) "ptr %p"
> >
> > These trace event declarations are processed by a new tool called
> > tracetool to generate code for the trace events.  Trace event
> > declarations are independent of the backend tracing system (LTTng User
> > Space Tracing, ftrace markers, DTrace).
> 
> I think the tool does not work if 'sh' is not 'bash'. For example, on
> OpenBSD I got:

Well, it does work with ash.

> 
> config-host.mak is out-of-date, running configure
> 
> Error: invalid trace backend
> Please choose a supported trace backend.
> 
>   GEN   trace.h
> /src/qemu/tracetool[176]: no closing quote
> 
> This shows the problem:
> sh -x ../tracetool --nop --check-backend
> + set -f
> ../tracetool[176]: no closing quote

`set -f' is a valid construct according to:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/set.html

The problem is likely elsewhere.

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