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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: python3-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 Please note that some distributions will need the following
96 environment variables set before running configure:
97
98 export PYTHON="python3"
99 export PYTHON_CONFIG="/usr/bin/python3-config"
100
101 USAGE:
102
103 Please see doc/quickstart.txt to help you start tracing. You can also use the
104 -h/--help command on 'lttng' and all other commands offered in this tool (Ex:
105 lttng enable-event -h).
106
107 A network streaming HOWTO can be found in doc/streaming-howto.txt which quickly
108 helps you understand how to stream a LTTng 2.0 trace.
109
110 A Python HOWTO can be found in doc/python-howto.txt which quickly
111 helps you understand how to use the Python module to control the LTTng API.
112
113 PACKAGE CONTENTS:
114
115 This package contains the following elements:
116
117 - liblttng-ctl (public API)
118 The LTTng tracing control library.
119
120 - libsessiond-comm (internal)
121 The lttng-sessiond communication library. In order to talk with
122 lttng-sessiond, this library must be used.
123
124 - libkernel-ctl (internal)
125 Kernel tracer control and ioctl definitions.
126
127 - libconsumer (internal)
128 Library for Kernel and (optionally) UST trace consumer.
129
130 - libkernel-consumer (internal)
131 Library for Kernel consumer control
132
133 - libust-consumer (internal)
134 Library for UST consumer control
135
136 - libhashtable (internal)
137 Library wrapper over URCU hashtables.
138
139 - libcommon (internal)
140 Contains multiple useful function call used by the whole tree.
141
142 - libcompat (internal)
143 Compatibility library mostly for FreeBSD and Linux.
144
145 - librelayd (internal)
146 Library for all relayd interactions over the network.
147
148 - lttng-relayd
149 The relay daemon used for network streaming
150
151 - lttng-consumerd
152 The consumer daemon which uses libconsumer.
153
154 - lttng-sessiond
155 The LTTng session daemon binary.
156
157 - lttng
158 The LTTng tracer command line control tool.
159
160 - include (installed in $(includedir)/lttng/)
161 The liblttngctl API header file.
162
163 - tests
164 Various test programs.
165
166 - doc
167 Various documentations and quickstart guide.
168
169 - extras
170 Contains extra data such as bash completion file. Python bindings for
171 liblttng-ctl are also available there.
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