It appears that the space in root dir name "SystemTap GUI" breaks the tool on Linux (bash shell); the tool is installed from the pre-build tar file; when run, the systemtapgui reports an error; the log is as follows:
!SESSION 2007-09-13 16:47:54.251 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=unknown
java.version=1.5.0_05
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=linux, ARCH=x86, WS=gtk, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments: -os linux -ws gtk -arch x86
!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2007-09-13 16:47:55.429
!MESSAGE Application error
!STACK 1
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /base/SystemTap GUI/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/42/1/.cp/libswt-pi-gtk-3236.so: /base/SystemTap GUI/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/42/1/.cp/libswt-pi-gtk-3236.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1751)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1660)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:822)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:992)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:123)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.OS.<clinit>(OS.java:22)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Converter.wcsToMbcs(Converter.java:63)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Converter.wcsToMbcs(Converter.java:54)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.<clinit>(Display.java:126)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createDisplay(Workbench.java:436)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createDisplay(PlatformUI.java:161)
at com.ibm.ras.systemtap.systemtapgui.Application.run(Application.java:29)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:78)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:92)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:68)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:400)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:177)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:336)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:280)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:977)
at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:952)
The space seems to be the reason why it cannot find the library:
# file "/base/SystemTap GUI/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/42/1/.cp/libswt-pi-gtk-3236.so"
/base/SystemTap GUI/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/42/1/.cp/libswt-pi-gtk-3236.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped