Using the systemtap configure script on Ubuntu 9.04

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

gkosteva@comcast.net writes:

> I got the configure to work and ran the make install which successfully
> created the target bound /systemtap-1.0-macharm directory.=20
> I am now trying to generate the *.ko file using the command:
>
> ./stap -gv -a arm -D OMAP_REL_FAMILY -B CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- -r .....

> However, my /systemtap-1.0-macharm/bin directory only contains stap-report
> and staprun, but no stap executable/script to generate the required .ko file

It looks like the wrong parts of the tool were built.  staprun needs
to be cross-compiled or natively compiled for the arm platform.  stap
needs to be natively compiled on the development host where the arm
platform's kernel etc. were built.

- FChE