[Xymon] Xymon 4.3.20-RC1 Available

[J.C. Cleaver]

On Tue, May 12, 2015 11:40 am, John Thurston wrote:
> On 5/12/2015 6:20 AM, J.C. Cleaver wrote:
>> I've posted Release Candidate 1 for Xymon 4.3.20, . . .
>> Please take a pounding on it and let me know if you notice any problems
>> --
>> especially on non-Linux systems. If all goes according to plan, I'll be
>> releasing the final 4.3.20 later on this week.
>
> On Solaris 10, xymonnet/c-ares-shim.sh is trying to pass "-e" options to
> grep and failing during the make.
>
>> mv c-ares-1.10.0 c-ares
>> # Must touch "configure", or it will trigger a rebuild because it is
>> older than the tar.gz file.
>> touch c-ares/configure
>> (cd c-ares && ../c-ares-shim.sh ./configure --disable-shared)
>> grep: illegal option -- e
>> grep: illegal option -- I
>> grep: illegal option -- e
>> grep: illegal option -- D
>> grep: illegal option -- e
>> grep: illegal option -- L
>> Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .
>> ../c-ares-shim.sh: test: argument expected
>> gmake[1]: *** [c-ares/Makefile] Error 1
>> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/xymon/xymon-4.3.20-rc1/xymonnet'
>> gmake: *** [xymonnet-build] Error 2
>
> /usr/bin/grep doesn't handle -e
> /usr/xpg4/bin/grep does
>
> c-ares-shim.sh is just calling 'grep'. Isn't there something in the
> process which defines $GREP and $EGREP to point to an appropriate
> version of grep?


Unfortunately not -- configure hadn't had a need for it it seems, and
we're not within autoconf currently.

Can you try this quick patch to it? Although uglier, I don't think there's
a need for a single (e)grep there.


-jc
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