[Xymon] Update on 4.4 (Alpha1 release)

[Tom Schmidt]

Ralph, thanks for catching and fixing this for the OpenSSL version.

Tom Schmidt

On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 10:34 PM Ralph M <ralphmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tom,
>
> I realise that you're working with Rocky 8, but I just want to note that
> the lib/tcplib.c patch breaks compilation on RHEL7.
>
> The function ASN1_STRING_get0_data() appears in openssl-1.1, but not
> in  RHEL7 / openssl-1.0.
>
> I found that there's an openssl version number in the openssl/opensslv.h
> include file, which allows the attached patch to select the correct
> function.  With this modification to your patch, the compilation completes
> on RHEL7, RHEL8 and RHEL9.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 11:12 PM J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, October 3, 2023 13:06, Tom Schmidt wrote:
>> >
>> > J.C. and 4.4-alpha1 testers,
>> >     I have done a little bit of testing of 4.4-alpha1 on Rocky Linux 8.8
>> > (server and client) and on a busybox Linux install on a NAS.  I looked
>> > into
>> > the gcc 8.5.0 compiler warnings that I got on Rocky Linux, and have
>> > corrected them, or silenced the ones that should not be an issue.
>> > Attached
>> > are two context diff patch files, one to fix the compiler warnings, and
>> > one
>> > to make a couple updates that I had applied to 4.3.30 previously.  My
>> > updates fix the busybox Linux client build, and enhance the temperature
>> > graph to optionally display both Celsius and Fahrenheit readings.
>> >
>> >     I have not fully tested 4.4-alpha1 yet, but wanted to get these
>> first
>> > patches released for 4.4-alpha2.
>> >
>> > Tom Schmidt
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the patches!
>>
>> Yes, the build errors had been a concern for me as well; determining which
>> sections were protected by correct math and which weren't was going to
>> take some time, and this is quite helpful.
>>
>> I've created a 4.3.31 branch for similar concerns and many of these are
>> just as applicable there. There's also a corruption bug on some loads that
>> is crashing on F28 (and F29), so that release will probably just be build
>> fixes for the stable tree.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -jc
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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