[Xymon] Error compiling Xymon Client in client mode

[Mike Burger]

> I get the same result when trying to do the same thing (with v4.3.4 and
> v4.3.10).  I think that there's a bug in the way the client is built when
> using client-side configuration, and nobody uses it anymore so it hasn't
> been tested for a very long time.
>
> It seems that if you first configure for client-side config, it will not
> create the lib/xymonclient.a file required.  However, if you first
> configure for server-side config and make, then re-configure for
> client-side config and make again, this problem goes away.
>
> There are two more problems, it seems:  The file xymond/Makefile requires
> an adjustment for using libxymonclient instead of xymonclient, and some
> libraries need to be forced to link against it also.  So the following
> adjusted entry in xymond/Makefile worked for me:
>
> ../client/xymond_client: $(CLIENTOBJS) ../lib/libxymonclient.a
>         $(CC) -o $@ $(RPATHOPT) $(CLIENTOBJS) *../lib/loadhosts.o
> ../lib/matching.o ../lib/timing.o ../lib/locator.o
> ../lib/libxymonclientcomm.a ../lib/libxymonclient.a -lpcre* $(PCRELIBS)
> $(NETLIBS) $(LIBRTDEF)
>
> I note that some of the libraries should have been pulled in with
> $(PCRELIBS) and $(LIBRTDEF) but these don't seem to have been defined when
> in client-config mode.

FWIW, I have recently built the client for use on a number of Ubuntu
installs at work...of course, I had no problem building them there. :-)
-- 
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