strace-6.16

Introduction to strace

The strace package provides a diagnostic, debugging, and instructional userspace utility.

Install strace by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
    --enable-mpers=no &&
make

Now, as the root user:

make install

--enable-mpers=no: By default, strace is built to support both the m32 and mx32 personalities. This parameter disables that behavior.

--with-libunwind: This parameter builds strace with libunwind support.

Invoke ./configure --help for a full list of options.

Installed Programs: strace and strace-log-merge

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: None

strace	traces system calls and signals, most often used for debugging
strace-log-merge	merges the output of strace -ff -tt, prepends PID to each lines, then sorts the result using time stamps