[hobbit] Preliminary patch for RC3 brokenness

[Asif Iqbal]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 12:19:09AM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> is available at http://www.hswn.dk/beta/post-RC3.patch
> 
> It's been running for an hour now without problems, so I think I've
> got the embarassing bugs fixed:
> 
> * hobbitd_larrd should not crash anymore
> * the alert-configuration should load correctly
> * runtime-libraries should hopefully be found correctly on Linux and *BSD
> * maint.pl should no longer complain about un-initialised variables
> 
> In addition, you get:
> * A new hobbit-mailack tool was added, so you can acknowledge 
>   alerts via e-mail without having to use BB's bb-mailack.sh
>   (see the hobbit-mailack man-page for instructions on setting it up)
> * Support for OpenBSD was added
> 
> To install the patch, do:
> 
>    cd hobbit-4.0-RC3
>    patch -p0 </tmp/post-RC3.patch
>    rm Makefile
>    ./configure
>    make
>    su -c "make install"

May be another silly error :-) . This is what I get while trying to
compile

gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused -D_REENTRANT -DHAVE_RPCENT -DMAXMSG=32768
-DBBDPORTNUMBER=1984 -I. -I/usr/share/src/hobbit-4.0-RC3/include -o
hobbit-mailack  hobbit-mailack.o ../lib/libbbgen.a -L/usr/local/lib
-lpcre
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
recv                                ../lib/libbbgen.a(sendmsg.o)
getservbyname                       ../lib/libbbgen.a(sendmsg.o)
gethostbyname                       ../lib/libbbgen.a(sendmsg.o)
socket                              ../lib/libbbgen.a(sendmsg.o)
getsockopt                          ../lib/libbbgen.a(sendmsg.o)
connect                             ../lib/libbbgen.a(sendmsg.o)
inet_aton                           ../lib/libbbgen.a(sendmsg.o)
inet_ntoa                           ../lib/libbbgen.a(sendmsg.o)
shutdown                            ../lib/libbbgen.a(sendmsg.o)
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to
hobbit-mailack
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [hobbit-mailack] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/share/src/hobbit-4.0-RC3/hobbitd'
make: *** [hobbitd-build] Error 2


Thanks

> 
> Note that you MUST delete the old Makefile, and re-run the configure
> script.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
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