Fwd: [packages] python 2.7 and systemtap markers?

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Gareth <academicgareth@gmail.com> writes:

> Is it necessary to apply some patch to cpython source for tracing
> python (2.7) in Ubuntu?
> I'm googling and find many guys are talking about patches for python,
> but I don't know current status :(

Yeah, upstream python.org status of sys/sdt.h support is unclear:
  https://bugs.python.org/issue4111
  https://bugs.python.org/issue13405
have been open for some seven years (!!).
Here is the Fedora patch for python 2.7+.

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/python.git/tree/00055-systemtap.patch

- FChE