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Date:      Mon, 6 Sep 2010 15:47:44 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        jhell <jhell@DataIX.net>
Cc:        pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com>, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: At r212060, but /usr/bin/drace and /usr/sbin/lockstat still depend on libz.so.5
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009061547100.47367@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C84FB6B.4020408@DataIX.net>
References:  <20100906125004.GA45452@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <AANLkTik8V_3Nya-JuhfQFWsO7%2B7U3e4hGviw0ZdQ7idK@mail.gmail.com> <4C84FB6B.4020408@DataIX.net>

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On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, jhell wrote:

>> After r210693, these utilities are built for i386 and amd64 only. Thereby 
>> you have stale binaries installed from older sources.
>
> Lol this is the first I have read about this & comes as quite the surprise 
> that its not being built on top of the platform/arch that it was designed to 
> work on. Given this is FreeBSD and !*Solaris its understandable to a certain 
> point but still...

I for one eagerly look forward to the day where we can get DTrace working on 
MIPs, which is a widely-used architecture in the network device / appliance / 
etc community.

Robert



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