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1 LTTng-tools
2 ===========
3
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6
7 LTTng-tools is a set of tools to control [LTTng](https://lttng.org/)
8 tracing. The project includes the LTTng session daemon, consumer daemon
9 and relay daemon, as well as `liblttng-ctl`, a C library used to
10 communicate with the session daemon, and `lttng`, a command line
11 interface to `liblttng-ctl`.
12
13
14 Requirements and optional dependencies
15 --------------------------------------
16
17 The following items are _required_ to build and run LTTng-tools
18 components:
19
20 - **Linux kernel >= 2.6.27**: for `epoll()` support, at least this
21 version is needed. However, `poll()` is also supported by
22 configuring LTTng-tools with the `--disable-epoll` option. Using
23 that, the kernel version may probably be older, but we can't provide
24 any guarantee. Please let us know if you are able to go lower
25 without any problems.
26 - **[`liburcu`](http://www.liburcu.org/) >= 0.9.0**: userspace RCU library,
27 by Mathieu Desnoyers and Paul E. McKenney.
28 - **`libpopt` >= 1.13**: command line arguments parsing library.
29 - Debian/Ubuntu package: `libpopt-dev`
30 - **`libuuid`**: universally unique ID library
31 - Debian/Ubuntu package: `uuid-dev`
32 - **`libxml2` >= 2.7.6**: XML document parsing library. Needed for
33 tracing session configuration saving/loading and machine interface
34 output support.
35 - Debian/Ubuntu package: `libxml2-dev`
36
37
38 The following items are _optional_ dependencies:
39
40 - **[Babeltrace](https://lttng.org/babeltrace)**: trace viewer.
41 Enables the use of `lttng view` command.
42 - Debian/Ubuntu package: `babeltrace`
43 - **[LTTng UST](https://lttng.org) (same minor version as LTTng Tools)**:
44 userspace tracer. Enables the tracing of userspace applications.
45 - Debian/Ubuntu package: `liblttng-ust-dev`
46 - **Perl**: needed for `make check` and tests.
47 - **Python >= 3.0**: needed for `make check` and tests.
48 - Debian/Ubuntu package: `python3`
49 - **SWIG >= 2.0** and **Python 3 development headers**: needed for
50 Python bindings
51 (enabled at configure time with the `--enable-python-bindings` option).
52 - Debian/Ubuntu packages: `swig2.0` and `python3-dev`
53 - **modprobe**: needed for automatic LTTng kernel modules loading
54 (kernel tracing).
55 - **bash**: needed to run `make check`.
56 - **man** (manual pager): needed to view LTTng-tools commands' man
57 pages with the `--help` option or with the `lttng help` command.
58 Note that without `man`, you cannot get offline help with
59 LTTng-tools commands, not even their usage.
60 - **libpfm >= 4.0**: needed to run the perf regression test suite.
61 - Debian/Ubuntu package: `libpfm4-dev`
62
63 LTTng-tools supports both the [LTTng Linux Kernel tracer](https://lttng.org)
64 and [LTTng user space tracer](https://lttng.org) released as part of the same
65 **minor** release series. While some releases do not change the tracer ABIs and
66 should work with, no testing is performed to ensure cross-version compatibility
67 is maintained.
68
69 Note that applications instrumented with older versions of the LTTng UST project
70 do not have to be rebuilt or modified to work with the latest LTTng-tools.
71 For more information on versioning, please refer to the
72 [LTTng documentation](https://lttng.org/docs).
73
74 Building
75 --------
76
77 This source tree is based on the Autotools suite from GNU to simplify
78 portability. Here are some things you should have on your system in
79 order to compile the Git repository tree:
80
81 - **GNU Autotools** (**Automake >= 1.10**, **Autoconf >= 2.64**,
82 **Autoheader >= 2.50**; make sure your system-wide `automake` points
83 to a recent version)
84 - **[GNU Libtool](http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/) >= 2.2**
85 - **Flex >= 2.5.35**
86 - **Bison >= 2.4**
87
88 Optional packages to build LTTng-tools man pages:
89
90 - **AsciiDoc >= 8.4.5** (previous versions may work, but were
91 not tested)
92 - **xmlto >= 0.0.21** (previous versions may work, but were
93 not tested)
94
95 If you use GNU gold, which is _not_ mandatory, make sure you have this
96 version:
97
98 - **GNU gold >= 2.22**
99
100 Before this version of GNU gold, we hit a
101 [known bug](http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11317).
102 Be advised that with GNU gold, you might have to specify
103 `-L/usr/local/lib` in `LDFLAGS`.
104
105 If you get the tree from the Git repository, you will need to run
106
107 ./bootstrap
108
109 in its root. It calls all the GNU tools needed to prepare the tree
110 configuration.
111
112 To build LTTng-tools, do:
113
114 ./configure
115 make
116 sudo make install
117 sudo ldconfig
118
119 If you want Python bindings, add the `--enable-python-bindings` option
120 to `configure`. Please note that some distributions will need the
121 following environment variables set before running configure:
122
123 export PYTHON="python3"
124 export PYTHON_CONFIG="/usr/bin/python3-config"
125
126
127 Using
128 -----
129
130 Please see [`doc/quickstart.txt`](doc/quickstart.txt) to get started
131 with LTTng tracing. You can also use the `-h` or `--help` option of
132 any `lttng` command, e.g.:
133
134 lttng enable-event --help
135
136 A network streaming HOWTO can be found in
137 [`doc/streaming-howto.txt`](doc/streaming-howto.txt) which quickly
138 helps you understand how to stream a LTTng 2.x trace.
139
140 A Python binding HOWTO can be found in
141 [`doc/python-howto.txt`](doc/python-howto.txt) which quickly helps you
142 understand how to use the Python module to control LTTng.
143
144
145 Contact
146 -------
147
148 Maintainer: [Jérémie Galarneau](mailto:jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com)
149
150 Mailing list: [`lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org`](https://lttng.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lttng-dev)
151
152
153 Package contents
154 ----------------
155
156 This package contains the following elements:
157
158 - `doc`: LTTng-tools documentation.
159 - `include`: the public header files that will be installed on the system.
160 - `src/bin`: source code of LTTng-tools programs.
161 - `lttng-consumerd`: consumer daemon.
162 - `lttng-crash`: crash trace viewer.
163 - `lttng-relayd`: relay daemon.
164 - `lttng-sessiond`: session daemon.
165 - `lttng`: command line interface for LTTng tracing control.
166 - `src/common`: common LTTng-tools source code.
167 - `compat`: compatibility library mostly for FreeBSD and Linux.
168 - `config`: tracing session configuration saving/loading.
169 - `hashtable`: library wrapper over Userspace RCU hashtables.
170 - `health`: health check subsytem.
171 - `index`: CTF index utilities.
172 - `kernel-consumer`: Linux kernel consumer.
173 - `kernel-ctl`: Linux kernel tracer control.
174 - `relayd`: relay daemon control.
175 - `sessiond-comm`: session daemon communication.
176 - `ust-consumer`: user space consumer.
177 - `src/lib`: source code of LTTng-tools libraries.
178 - `lttng-ctl`: LTTng control library.
179 - `tests`: various test programs.
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