trace: avoid conditional code compilation during option parsing

A default implementation for backend-specific routines is provided in
"trace/default.c", which backends can override by setting "trace_default=no" in
"configure".

Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/trace/default.c b/trace/default.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..42fdb6b6a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/trace/default.c
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/*
+ * Default implementation for backend initialization from commandline.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2011 Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.  See
+ * the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ */
+
+#include "trace/control.h"
+
+
+bool trace_backend_init(const char *file)
+{
+    if (file) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "error: -trace file=...: "
+                "option not supported by the selected tracing backend\n");
+        return false;
+    }
+    return true;
+}