X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=1d731ab76c4d8d8ab1fe787f12d51d4adda7bc8a;hb=31cf5ca34ea522f407f2fcab780c4a644f2bd15e;hp=e449576accb764f8b5f6f5e0992aaba9b200c404;hpb=80448b293eca951053f25c29351d6a72b9c9ef88;p=lttng-ust.git

diff --git a/README b/README
index e449576a..1d731ab7 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -56,7 +56,9 @@ INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
   installs. However, this path is not part of most distributions' default
   library path which will cause builds depending on liblttng-ust to fail unless
   '-L/usr/local/lib' is added to LDFLAGS. You may provide a custom prefix to
-  configure by using the --prefix switch.
+  configure by using the --prefix switch. Note that LTTng-UST needs to
+  be a shared library, even if the tracepoint probe provider is statically
+  linked into the application.
 
 USAGE: