Bug 27142

Summary:	please add support for babeltrace2
Product:	gdb	Reporter:	Matthias Klose <doko>
Component:	build	Assignee:	Not yet assigned to anyone <unassigned>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	simark
Priority:	P2
Version:	HEAD
Target Milestone:	---
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Description Matthias Klose 2021-01-03 12:17:45 UTC

please add support to build with babeltrace2

https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libbabeltrace2-dev/filelist

babeltrace2 comes with different include paths and a different pkgconfig file.

Comment 1 Simon Marchi 2021-01-04 03:32:11 UTC

Technically, I don't think there would be a problem in migrating to Babeltrace 2.  But as much as I'd like to see Babeltrace 2 getting used (I contribute to it and it's a project essentially driven by my company), we should consider just removing the CTF (Common Trace Format, no Compact C Type Format) support in GDB.  GDB tracepoints are already not so widely used, and saving trace data in CTF is a niche use case within that.

I'll ask on the gdb@ mailing list, see if anyone still cares today.

If you read this and you do care, please say so, so we know it's worth keeping the feature.