I'm not at all sure if this is the right way to do it, but I was able to build using the enable-tracing.patch from Eloston by commenting out the public_configs lines containing zlib_config in third_party/perfetto/gn/BUILD.gn
Right now I am typing into my webmail client using Chromium from that build. I had to install libevent-2.1-6 before installing the Chromium packages. I installed the debug symbols and am running it under gdb so if it crashes I will report back with some output.
