- **modprobe**: needed for automatic LTTng kernel modules loading
(kernel tracing).
- **bash**: needed for running `make check`.
+ - **man** (manual pager): needed to view LTTng-tools commands' man
+ pages with the `--help` option or with the `lttng help` command.
+ Note that without `man`, you cannot get offline help with
+ LTTng-tools commands, not even their usage.
LTTng-tools supports both the [LTTng Linux Kernel tracer](https://lttng.org)
and [LTTng user space tracer](https://lttng.org) released as part of the same
portability. Here are some things you should have on your system in
order to compile the Git repository tree:
- - GNU Autotools (Automake >= 1.10, Autoconf >= 2.64,
- Autoheader >= 2.50; make sure your system-wide `automake` points to
- a recent version!)
- - [GNU Libtool](http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/) >= 2.2
- - Flex >= 2.5.35
- - Bison >= 2.4
+ - **GNU Autotools** (**Automake >= 1.10**, **Autoconf >= 2.64**,
+ **Autoheader >= 2.50**; make sure your system-wide `automake` points
+ to a recent version!)
+ - **[GNU Libtool](http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/) >= 2.2**
+ - **Flex >= 2.5.35**
+ - **Bison >= 2.4**
+
+Optional packages to build LTTng-tools man pages:
+
+ - **AsciiDoc >= 8.4.5** (previous versions may work, but were
+ not tested)
+ - **xmlto >= 0.0.21** (previous versions may work, but were
+ not tested)
If you use GNU gold, which is _not_ mandatory, make sure you have this
version:
- - GNU gold >= 2.22
+ - **GNU gold >= 2.22**
Before this version of GNU gold, we hit a
[known bug](http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11317).
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