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

[mjeanson@efficios.com (Michael Jeanson)]

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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?

Michael