Re: Probing user-space markers in RPM installed binaries

[William Cohen <wcohen at redhat dot com>]

Roland McGrath wrote:
> > make dist-gzip
> >
> > Copied the systemtap-0.8.tar.gz into the rpm SOURCES directory and
> > copied the systemtap.spec into the rpm SPEC directory.  Built the rpms with:
> >
> > rpmbuild -ba systemtap.spec
>
> You can do: rpmbuild -ta systemtap*.tar.gz
> (when the tarfile contains systemtap.sec)

Hi Roland,

Thanks for the "rpmbuild -ta" shortcut. Past workflow for fedora and rhel 
maintainence programmed me to use "rpmbuld -ba"

> > The changes for the postgresql spec file were very modest:
>
> Nice.
>
> > +%{!?sdt:%define sdt 1}
>
> You can use _with_sdt in place of sdt here ...
>
> > rpmbuild -ba postgresql.spec --define 'sdt 1'
>
> ... then it's --with-sdt instead of --define.

Yes, the --with-sdt would be a bit cleaner. I was just aping other options 
already in the postgresql. The xorg-X11-server.spec has --with-* approach.

Thanks for the comments, Roland.

-Will
> > Install the resulting binary rpms. Access to the arguments of the
>
>
> Thanks,
> Roland