Re: Remove traceevent from tools/lib

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2022 09:59:46 -0800
Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Means that perf is cleanly(ish) separated from libraries in tools/lib.
> traceevent in tools/lib is out of date (~2years - version 1.1.0 whilst
> the latest is 1.6.3 [1]) . Should we delete traceevent from tools/lib

Yes please!

Strongly-acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

-- Steve

> and just make LIBTRACEEVENT_DYNAMIC the only supported perf build
> option? I guess this may break old distributions that may not have
> libtraceevent, but even so I'm not sure that should motivate not
> cleaning this up (if they are building perf they can build
> libtraceevent).