dtrace problem?

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 18:48:17 -0700
> From: Marcus Reid <marcus at blazingdot.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> 
> 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.

I believe WITH_CTF=1 would probably be placed in /etc/src.conf.
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