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1 LTTng Trace Control
2 ----------------
3
4 Please visit https://lttng.org for more information. The current maintainer is
5 David Goulet <dgoulet@efficios.com>.
6
7 Latest development can be found at:
8
9 * Gitweb : https://git.lttng.org/?p=lttng-tools.git;a=summary
10 * Git : git://git.lttng.org/lttng-tools.git
11
12 REQUIREMENTS:
13
14 - Linux kernel >= 2.6.27
15 For epoll() support, at least this version is needed. However, poll() is
16 also supported by running "./configure --disable-epoll". Using that, the
17 kernel version can probably be older but we can't provide any guarantee.
18 Please let us know if you are able to go lower without any problems.
19
20 - liburcu
21 Userspace RCU library, by Mathieu Desnoyers and Paul E. McKenney
22
23 -> Tested with liburcu 0.7.x stable.
24
25 * Debian/Ubuntu package: liburcu-dev
26 * Git : git://git.lttng.org/userspace-rcu.git
27 * Website: https://lttng.org/urcu
28
29 - libpopt >= 1.13
30 Library for parsing command line parameters
31
32 * Debian/Ubuntu package: libpopt-dev
33
34 - Perl (optional)
35 Needed for make check and tests.
36
37 - Python >= 3.0 (optional)
38 Needed for make check and tests.
39
40 * Debian/Ubuntu package: python3
41
42 - SWIG >= 2.0 (optional)
43 Needed for Python bindings (--enable-python-bindings).
44
45 * Debian/Ubuntu package: swig2.0
46
47 - python-dev (optional)
48 Python headers
49
50 * Debian/Ubuntu package: python-dev
51
52 - For kernel tracing: modprobe
53
54 - bash
55 Needed for running "make check".
56
57 For developers using the git tree:
58
59 This source tree is based on the autotools suite from GNU to simplify
60 portability. Here are some things you should have on your system in order to
61 compile the git repository tree :
62
63 - GNU autotools (automake >=1.10, autoconf >=2.50, autoheader >=2.50)
64 (make sure your system wide "automake" points to a recent version!)
65 - GNU Libtool >=2.2
66 (for more information, go to https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/)
67 - flex >= 2.5.35
68 - bison >= 2.4
69
70 If you use GNU gold, which is NOT mandatory, make sure you have this version:
71 - GNU gold >= 2.22
72 (Before this version we hit a known bug documented at:
73 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11317)
74 Be advise that with GNU gold, you'll might have to specify -L/usr/local/lib in
75 LDFLAGS.
76
77 If you get the tree from the repository, you will need to use the "bootstrap"
78 script in the root of the tree. It calls all the GNU tools needed to prepare
79 the tree configuration.
80
81 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
82
83 - Download, compile and install the prerequisites.
84 Then:
85 $ ./boostrap
86 $ ./configure
87 $ make
88 $ sudo make install
89 $ sudo ldconfig
90
91 If compiling from the git repository, run ./bootstrap before running
92 the configure script, to generate it.
93
94 If you want Python bindings, run ./configure --enable-python-bindings.
95
96 USAGE:
97
98 Please see doc/quickstart.txt to help you start tracing. You can also use the
99 -h/--help command on 'lttng' and all other commands offered in this tool (Ex:
100 lttng enable-event -h).
101
102 A network streaming HOWTO can be found in doc/streaming-howto.txt which quickly
103 helps you understand how to stream a LTTng 2.0 trace.
104
105 A Python HOWTO can be found in doc/python-howto.txt which quickly
106 helps you understand how to use the Python module to control the LTTng API.
107
108 PACKAGE CONTENTS:
109
110 This package contains the following elements:
111
112 - liblttng-ctl (public API)
113 The LTTng tracing control library.
114
115 - libsessiond-comm (internal)
116 The lttng-sessiond communication library. In order to talk with
117 lttng-sessiond, this library must be used.
118
119 - libkernel-ctl (internal)
120 Kernel tracer control and ioctl definitions.
121
122 - libconsumer (internal)
123 Library for Kernel and (optionally) UST trace consumer.
124
125 - libkernel-consumer (internal)
126 Library for Kernel consumer control
127
128 - libust-consumer (internal)
129 Library for UST consumer control
130
131 - libhashtable (internal)
132 Library wrapper over URCU hashtables.
133
134 - libcommon (internal)
135 Contains multiple useful function call used by the whole tree.
136
137 - libcompat (internal)
138 Compatibility library mostly for FreeBSD and Linux.
139
140 - librelayd (internal)
141 Library for all relayd interactions over the network.
142
143 - lttng-relayd
144 The relay daemon used for network streaming
145
146 - lttng-consumerd
147 The consumer daemon which uses libconsumer.
148
149 - lttng-sessiond
150 The LTTng session daemon binary.
151
152 - lttng
153 The LTTng tracer command line control tool.
154
155 - include (installed in $(includedir)/lttng/)
156 The liblttngctl API header file.
157
158 - tests
159 Various test programs.
160
161 - doc
162 Various documentations and quickstart guide.
163
164 - extras
165 Contains extra data such as bash completion file. Python bindings for
166 liblttng-ctl are also available there.
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