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Date:      Fri, 21 May 2010 18:48:17 -0700
From:      Marcus Reid <marcus@blazingdot.com>
To:        Nikolay Denev <ndenev@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dtrace problem?
Message-ID:  <20100522014817.GA73888@blazingdot.com>
In-Reply-To: <C221534F-31B7-4D07-B937-D2A13754D25A@gmail.com>
References:  <20100521060306.GA37722@blazingdot.com> <C221534F-31B7-4D07-B937-D2A13754D25A@gmail.com>

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On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 09:22:17AM +0300, Nikolay Denev wrote:
> On May 21, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Marcus Reid wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Running a recent RELENG_8 (FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #0: Tue May 18 23:37:37
> > PDT 2010), I'm having a problem using dtrace.  For every .d file I attempt
> > to compile, I get:
> > 
> >  dtrace: failed to compile script test.d: "/usr/lib/dtrace/psinfo.d", line 37: syntax error near "uid_t"
> > 
> > This is my first attempt to use dtrace, so I can't be sure if it worked
> > before.  It happens with some scripts that can be assumed to be valid,
> > so it's not just me.  Is it broken for anyone else?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Marcus
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Have you rebuilt your kernel as described here : http://wiki.freebsd.org/DTrace
> 
> I was once getting "uid_t" errors when my kernel was not compiled with "WITH_CTF" option.

Yes, that would probably be it.  The handbook is explicit about
building with WITH_CTF=1, so I put it in make.conf.

  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/dtrace-enable.html

Thanks, I'll rebuild without it.

Marcus


> Regards,
> Niki



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