syscount-probe build failure: Invalid record
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Description
I saw your mention of this project [here](https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/issues/1234#issuecomment-787524805) and thought I'd try it out. It doesn't build for me out of the box at `88e3e5a`.
```
$ cargo build
Compiling allprobes v0.1.0 (/home/slamb/git/crates/cargo-trace/examples/allprobes)
Compiling cargo-trace v0.1.0 (/home/slamb/git/crates/cargo-trace/cargo-trace)
Compiling syscount v0.1.0 (/home/slamb/git/crates/cargo-trace/examples/syscount)
error: failed to run custom build command for `syscount v0.1.0 (/home/slamb/git/crates/cargo-trace/examples/syscount)`
Caused by:
process didn't exit successfully: `/home/slamb/git/crates/cargo-trace/target/debug/build/syscount-e2e797b385d546a3/build-script-build` (exit status: 101)
--- stderr
Blocking waiting for file lock on package cache
Blocking waiting for file lock on package cache
Blocking waiting for file lock on package cache
Blocking waiting for file lock on package cache
Compiling syscount-probe v0.1.0 (/home/slamb/git/crates/cargo-trace/examples/syscount/probe)
warning: due to multiple output types requested, the explicitly specified output file name will be adapted for each output type
warning: ignoring --out-dir flag due to -o flag
warning: 2 warnings emitted
Finished release [optimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.26s
thread 'main' panicked at 'couldn't compile probes: Compile("syscount-probe", Some("couldn't process IR file: LLVMParseIRInContext failed: /home/slamb/git/crates/cargo-trace/target/debug/build/syscount-533abdd8f526e7d6/out/target/bpf/programs/syscount-probe/syscount-probe-4ac884cf8595263c.bc: error: Invalid record\n"))', examples/syscount/build.rs:12:10
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error: build failed
```
That's with Rust 1.53.0, fwiw, on Ubuntu 21.04 after `apt install llvm-11 clang-11` [to build `llvm-sys` properly](https://gitlab.com/taricorp/llvm-sys.rs/-/issues/16) properly. Looks like you have a checked-in `Cargo.lock` so I think all other relevant software should be exactly as in the repository. I'm not sure why it'd fail just on my setup then. I haven't diagnosed further; I don't know much about LLVM IR...
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Reproduce the failure with Rust 1.53.0, Ubuntu 21.04, and the referenced commit using `cargo build`. Start with `examples/syscount/build.rs` and the `syscount-probe` build output, then investigate the LLVM IR parsing error for the generated `.bc` file. Done means the syscount probe builds successfully without the Invalid record failure.
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- Issue type
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