[Mono-dev] Mono dtrace provider?

[Miguel de Icaza]

> Mono however uses libtool+automake for building: First, there seem to  
> be PIC and non-PIC .o files generated; then most .o files are compiled  
> into .a archives; and finally, all these .o files are handled  
> automagically by libtool/automake/whatever so it's difficult to add  
> such manual build steps.

PIC files are only used when you embed Mono into a third party
application (when you use -lmono).   The static case is what Mono uses
if you invoke it as a runtime from the command line ("mono app.exe")

> I thought data/ would be an obvious choice for the .d file, and chose  
> mono/utils for the generated header and object file but the object  
> file seems to depend on all object files with the probes, here mini.o  

Hand written information can go into the data directory;   Source code
generated by a tool should be generated at compile time.

miguel