Building the client on Mac OS X 10.6 -> success

[Elmar Heeb]

Hi

I tried to compile the xymon client on Mac OS X 10.6 and ran into the 
same problem that was reported about a year ago[1].  The problem comes 
from a namespace collision because the system include files on the Mac 
now have a file called Availability.h which is meant to be included by 
/usr/include/stdlib.h .  However, xymon has a file lib/availability.h 
which gets included instead.

Unfortunately, the default behaviour for the Mac HFS+ file system is to 
ignore case so the two files get mixed up.  The solution to this is 
fairly simple.  Just drop the -I. from the CFLAGS options.  Having -I. 
should not be necessary anyway because the preprocessor differentiates 
between #include <file.h> and #include "file.h" precisely to separate 
system includes from project includes.

Once this problem is solved, there are two more problems that will 
arise.  The first one would be the same on all platforms whenever xymon 
is built without SSL support (not needed on the client).  In 
lib/sendmsg.c TALK_SSLWRITE_RECEIVE will be referenced even though the 
enum only goes up to TALK_RECEIVE when HAVE_OPENSSL is not defined.

The second problem ist with the zlib where the dynamic library for Mac 
OS X is in /usr/lib/libz.dylib which does not get search.

The attached patch fixes all three problems and the Mac OS X client 
builds successfully.

Hope this helps.

Regards,     -- Elmar



[1] http://www.xymon.com/archive/2009/11/msg00311.html

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