Build steps:
-- Install the kernel-debuginfo, kernel-[smp-]devel, gcc packages
- (or see below if you are building your own kernels from source).
-- Download the latest elfutils snapshot:
+- Install the kernel-debuginfo, kernel-[smp-]devel, gcc and libcap-devel
+ packages (or see below if you are building your own kernels from source).
+- Download the latest elfutils snapshot (if desired):
ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/systemtap/elfutils/elfutils-NNNN.tar.gz
ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/systemtap/elfutils/elfutils-portability.patch
- Untar the snapshot in some new directory; apply patch (don't ask, long story)
cd src
./configure --with-elfutils=PATCHED-ELFUTILS-DIR [other autoconf options]
make all check
- make install
+ sudo make install
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