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Bastian Blank cd9993d22a rtla: Also link in ctype.c
rtla started to only link parts of the tools library. It now misses the
ctype information used by all the related string operations. Just add
another single file to make it build again.

Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
Fixes: 48209d763c ("rtla: Add libsubcmd dependency")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ako2S4mzIqWwYuas@steamhammer.waldi.eu.org
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RTLA: Real-Time Linux Analysis tools

The rtla meta-tool includes a set of commands that aims to analyze
the real-time properties of Linux. Instead of testing Linux as a black box,
rtla leverages kernel tracing capabilities to provide precise information
about the properties and root causes of unexpected results.

Installing RTLA

RTLA depends on the following libraries and tools:

 - libtracefs
 - libtraceevent
 - libcpupower (optional, for --deepest-idle-state)
 - libcheck (optional, for unit tests)

For BPF sample collection support, the following extra dependencies are
required:

 - libbpf 1.0.0 or later
 - bpftool with skeleton support
 - clang with BPF CO-RE support

It also depends on python3-docutils to compile man pages.

For development, we suggest the following steps for compiling rtla:

  $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent.git
  $ cd libtraceevent/
  $ make
  $ sudo make install
  $ cd ..
  $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtracefs.git
  $ cd libtracefs/
  $ make
  $ sudo make install
  $ cd ..
  $ cd $libcpupower_src
  $ make
  $ sudo make install
  $ cd $rtla_src
  $ make
  $ sudo make install

Running tests

RTLA has two test suites: a runtime test suite and a unit test suite.

The runtime test suite is available as "make check" (root required) and has
the following dependencies, in addition to RTLA build dependencies:

- Perl
- Test::Harness (libtest-harness-perl on Debian/Ubuntu, perl-Test-Harness on Fedora/RHEL)
- bash
- coreutils
- ldd
- util-linux
- procps(-ng)
- bpftool (if rtla is built against libbpf)

as well as the following required system configuration:

- CONFIG_OSNOISE_TRACER=y
- CONFIG_TIMERLAT_TRACER=y
- tracefs mounted and readable at /sys/kernel/tracing

The unit test suite is available as "make unit-tests" and has the following
dependencies:

- libcheck

Unlike the runtime test suite, root is not required to run unit tests, nor is
a tracefs/osnoise/timerlat-capable kernel required.

For further information, please refer to the rtla man page.