RelayFS does not appear to be in this kernel -> Pass 4: compilation failed

Martin Hunt hunt@redhat.com
Mon Apr 16 14:26:00 GMT 2007


On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 15:34 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> I'm trying to use SystemTap.
> 
> I followed the instructions here:
> 
> http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/SystemTapWithSelfBuiltKernel
> 
> 
> I built the kernel with these options:
> 
> Kernel hacking  --->
>      [*] Kernel debugging
>          [*]   Compile the kernel with debug info
> Instrumentation Support  --->
>      [*] Kprobes (EXPERIMENTAL)
> 
> 
> And also, with CONFIG_RELAY, despite the documentation says it's optional.
> 
> General setup  --->
>      [*] Kernel->user space relay support (formerly relayfs)
> 

I'll update the website. relayfs is no longer optional.

>From the error messages, it seems like you have a kernel with
CONFIG_DEBUG_FS disabled. It should be included by default in new
kernels. I'll add in a specific check for that.  Could you check if that
is the problem.

Martin




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