[Xymon] Can't compile 4.3.28 on Ubuntu 18

[david]

I had been facing the same problem on a device here and finally stumbled 
on this link:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=887633

Short answer is a necessary include statement to get the right libraries 
involved.

Hopefully it resolves your problem as well.



On 1/29/19 11:17 AM, Shawn Heisey wrote:
> I'm trying to get myself a new server set up.  It's running Ubuntu 18. I 
> downloaded the source for xymon 4.3.28, installed all of the optional 
> dependencies except the LDAP libraries, ran ./configure, and got this 
> error from trying to run make:
> 
> -----------
> make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/local/src/xymon-4.3.28/client'
> gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE 
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DLINUX -I/usr/local/src/xymon-4.3.28/include  -o 
> logfetch logfetch.c ../lib/libxymonclient.a
> logfetch.c: In function ‘logdata’:
> logfetch.c:210:105: error: ‘intmax_t’ undeclared (first use in this 
> function); did you mean ‘__intmax_t’?
>   bytes exceeds max buffer size %u; skipping some data\n", filename, 
> (intmax_t)bufsz, MAXCHECK);
> 
> ^~~~~~~~
> 
>                                   __intmax_t
> logfetch.c:210:105: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only 
> once for each function it appears in
> logfetch.c:210:114: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘bufsz’
>   eeds max buffer size %u; skipping some data\n", filename, 
> (intmax_t)bufsz, MAXCHECK);
>                                                                       ^~~~~
> Makefile:41: recipe for target 'logfetch' failed
> make[1]: *** [logfetch] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/local/src/xymon-4.3.28/client'
> build/Makefile.rules:77: recipe for target 'client' failed
> make: *** [client] Error 2
> -----------
> 
> GCC version is 7.3.0.
> 
> I pulled down the SVN trunk code and tried that, which required that I 
> install the sqlite dev library.  Compiling that version appeared to 
> work, but 'make install' failed.  It took a little bit of hacking in 
> some of the makefiles, but I finally did get it installed.  The 
> requirement for the sqlite dependency is not mentioned in 
> docs/install.html, by the way.
> 
> How should I handle this?  Should I open a bug report somewhere?  Since 
> the compilation problem doesn't exist in trunk, does that part need 
> reporting, or just the install problems?  I saw the recent thread about 
> how old the latest Xymon is, and I share the concern about how that 
> affects people's perception of the project.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shawn
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