README-linux revision 34d6eabc451f16d5f168fc1595ee604f21bccc51 
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2Strace has been ported by Branko Lankester <branko@hacktic.nl>
3to run on Linux systems.  Since then it has been greatly modified
4by various other people.
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6If you want to compile strace on a Linux system please make sure that
7you use recent kernel headers. Strace needs those to get the proper data
8structures and constatns used by the kernel, since these can be
9different from the structures that the C library uses. Currently you
10will need at least a 2.2.7 or newer kernel. 
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12To complicate things a bit further strace might not compile if you are
13using development kernels. These tend to have headers that conflict with
14the headers from libc which makes it impossible to use them.
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16There are three ways to compile strace with other kernel headers:
17* Specify the location in CFLAGS when running configure
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19     CFLAGS=-I/usr/src/linux/include ./configure
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21* you can tell make where your kernel sources are. For example if you
22  have your kernelsource in /usr/src/linux, you can invoke make like
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25     make CFLAGS="\$CFLAGS -I/usr/src/linux/include"
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27  (the extra \$CFLAGS is there to make sure we don't override any CFLAGS
28  settings that configure has found).
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30* you can link /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm to the
31  corresponding directories in your kernel source-tree.
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