Re: [DTrace-devel] [PATCH] test: testsuite $dt_flags and linker flags problems

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

Nick Alcock via DTrace-devel <dtrace-devel@oss.oracle.com> writes:

> The testsuite passes in a $dtrace environment variable: this must
> be an ELF executable because some tests use it in hashbang lines,
> so necessary flags are passed in in a $dt_flags variable which
> must be passed to every dtrace invocation.  These flags are largely
> path adjustments (-I etc) pointing DTrace to the in-source-tree
> testsuite or the out-of-tree SDT headers and such things: as such,
> it's unfortunate that a great many invocations were missed and that
> those invocations were largely things like -G that actually *use* -I.

Thanks. I was suspicious of the $dtrace use and I was wanting to audit
these!