Bug 942375

Summary:	dev-util/bcc: lua support does not work at all (broken upstream)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Holger Hoffstätte <holger>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Patrick McLean <chutzpah>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	holger, zmedico
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/issues/1899
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Description Holger Hoffstätte 2024-10-27 20:08:44 UTC

I just tried to use bcc with Lua (via the provided bcc-lua starter) to run the examples, and found that *nothing* works, and apparently has been broken for many years. Not a single example runs, and in fact not even the bcc-lua binary works correctly as it is underlinked (no libbcc.so reference), see the linked GH bug.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. build bcc with USE=lua (enabled by default)
2. bcc-lua /usr/share/bcc/examples/lua/task_switch.lua
3. broken/crashes (see linked GH bug)




Since this seems to be broken upstream since forever it's probably best to just disable Lua support in the ebuild.