Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Makefile: Make "install" depend on "trace-events-all"

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 12:39:45AM +0200, Lluís Vilanova wrote:
> Fam Zheng writes:
> 
> > We install this file to data dir but since 0ab8ed18 it's no longer
> > required by any objects during "make". List it explicitly as a depended
> > target of install and fix the broken "make install" command.
> 
> I'm probably wrong, but I remember someone worked on making traces
> self-descriptive, so that simpletrace would no longer need access to the
> generated trace-events-all file.
> 
> If the file is really never used, then all stray rules to generate it should 
> be
> removed, as well as its installation.

It is used at runtime when analysing a simpletrace file. While it would
be nice if they were self-descriptive, that isn't the case today, so we
must install this file.

Regards,
Daniel
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