Re: [PATCH] trace-cmd: Try alternate path for message cache

[Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2022 at 11:32 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 11:27:58 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> > Sure, if you compile it yourself, it may not be supported (which is what I
> > hit), but at least we guarantee that it will be supported across machines
> > using the same distro if we make it compile time dependent.
>
> Not to mention, I have use cases where trace-cmd needs to be installed in
> an environment with no dynamic libraries (nor using dlopen). Everything
> will be built statically. trace-cmd report will not be used, but trace-cmd
> agent will be.
>
> Remember, trace-cmd is to be embedded friendly.

Agreed, so should I send a patch next to do memfd unless
not-compressed? Is there an easy way to do not-compressed? Feel free
to rewrite my patch as well if doing this is trivial, I'm actually OOO
today for jury duty.

Thanks,

- Joel