[Mono-bugs] [Bug 445074] DTrace build broken for old Solaris 10 versions

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User andreas.faerber at web.de added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445074#c6





--- Comment #6 from Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber at web.de>  2008-11-29 02:55:17 MST ---
Yes, that's what Rodrigo has inquired me about. Possible solutions are:

a) use --disable-dtrace on the build bot

b) revert the commit that enabled DTrace by default based on platform
I believe it is buggy since it does not seem to check for OS version anyway -
Solaris 9 and earlier do not have it, nor do Mac OS X v10.4 and earlier.

c) check for `dtrace -V` version output
We'd need to know the problematic DTrace versions, and the build log doesn't
show that.

d) try to do `dtrace -h ...` during configure
Could use a dummy provider file or the real one and check return value.

e) provide alternative header file generation

>From my view, e) is not a good option since newer versions of dtrace are easily
obtainable and thus not worth the duplicate effort on our part.
If you'd ssh onto your build bot and tell me the `dtrace -V` output, as
requested before, I could easily supply a patch that greps for the problematic
version(s) (1.0.x? 1.1.x?) and sets has_dtrace=no in that case, so that DTrace
does not get enabled for the build.


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