stap in RHEL5 Alpha 1 x86_64

[William Cohen]

Jim Keniston wrote:
> I just got done helping a SystemTap user resolve a problem.  He had
> recently installed RHEL5 A1 on his x86_64 system, and was trying to use
> SystemTap.  stap was reporting a compile error in runtime/alloc.c (ref
> to for_each_cpu in _stp_alloc_cpu).  Even a simple hello-world script
> wouldn't compile.
> 
> "stap -V" reported:
> SystemTap translator/driver (version 0.5.5 built 2006-04-05)
> (Using Red Hat elfutils 0.121 libraries.)
> 
> I realize Alpha 1 was a while ago, but that seems pretty old.
> 
> Anyway, he fixed it by building and installing the latest snapshot from
> CVS.
> 
> Does this incident warrant a bugzilla?
> 
> Jim
> 
> 

That sounds like bz 2903. This has already been taken care of in the 
systemtap cvs.

-Will