Re: [xymon] Problems compiling Xymon 4.2.3 on Solaris 9 SPARC

[Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj (at) umdnj.edu>wrote:

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> On 07/29/2010 03:55 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> > Good afternoon,
> >
> > Attempting to recompile Xymon 4.2.3 and I'm running into the following
> > problem:
> >
> > gmake[1]: Entering directory `/usr/share/src/xymon-4.2.3/bbnet'
> > gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> > -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DSunOS -I. -I/usr/share/src/xymon-4.2.3/include
> > -I/opt/csw/include -DBBGEN_SSL -DBBGEN_LDAP -DBBGEN_LDAP_USESTARTTLS
> > -I/opt/csw/include  -I/opt/csw/include -c -o bbtest-net.o bbtest-net.c
> > In file included from /usr/include/rpc/rpcsec_gss.h:25,
> >                  from /usr/include/rpc/rpc.h:40,
> >                  from bbtest-net.c:23:
> > /opt/csw/include/gssapi/gssapi.h:2:20: stdint.h: No such file or
> directory
> > gmake[1]: *** [bbtest-net.o] Error 1
> > gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/xymon-4.2.3/bbnet'
> > gmake: *** [bbnet-build] Error 2
> >
> > ...my understanding is that Solaris 9 does not have stdint.h, instead
> > having inttypes.h. I don't recall anymore how I got this to compile the
> > first time as it was some time ago.
> >
> > Does anyone have some advice as to how I might accomplish this most
> > easily? Thanks.
> >
>
> Well, the issue appears to be a (in my opinion) broken CSWkrb5 package,
> that requires stdint.h even though it is not available on the platform
> the package is for. I didn't realize straight off that this missing
> header had nothing to do with Xymon. I guess I must have installed this
> package since I last compiled.



If you don't need xymon to do secure http or ldap checks, you could try
leaving those out during the configure stage.

Ralph Mitchell