[Nagiosplug-help] make of nagios-plugins-1.4.5 on AIX 4.3 fails for check_swap with "Undefined symbol: .floor"

[Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de]

Hello Andreas,

thank you for the quick help.

I really don't know what had kept me to just continue yesterday
as you are suggesting?

Maybe I was a bit intimidated by the Makefile's effluence
so that I feared not to get the make install properly through
finally.
But am I right in assuming that all that is required after the
individual make of only the required plugins
was to copy them into $USER1$ (aka NAGIOS_ROOT/libexec)?


Obviously 29 plugins were built successfully from my "make all"
until make check_swap caused the premature abort.

$ ls -F|grep \*\$
check_apt*
check_by_ssh*
check_disk*
check_dns*
check_dummy*
check_fping*
check_hpjd*
check_http*
check_load*
check_mrtg*
check_mrtgtraf*
check_mysql*
check_mysql_query*
check_nagios*
check_ntp*
check_nwstat*
check_overcr*
check_ping*
check_procs*
check_real*
check_smtp*
check_snmp*
check_ssh*
check_tcp*
check_time*
check_ups*
check_users*
negate*
urlize*


$ ls -F|grep -c \*\$
29


But there seem to be many more source files in the plugins subdir
of the source tree

$ echo *.c|wc -w
      44

I can see that at least one vital plugin so far is missing.
But I can't find a source file for it.

$ ls -l check_{udp,tcp}.c
ls: 0653-341 The file check_udp.c does not exist.
-rw-r--r--   1 nagios   nagios     18728 Oct 20 01:53 check_tcp.c


Could this mean that check_udp is merely a link to check_tcp (or
some other check_*),
and that when invoked in this guise the check behaves accordingly

(viz. emitting UDP packets instead of TCP)?

I also think to recall to have heard somewhere that similarily if
one links check_host to check_icmp,
and uses this name as the general host check, that nagios would
then only send a single ICMP packet
to a service's host, when that service check returned unknown,
instead of several like check_icmp does?



Regards

Ralph



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:41 PM
> To: Grothe, Ralph
> Cc: nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-help] make of nagios-plugins-1.4.5 on
AIX 4.3
> fails for check_swap with "Undefined symbol: .floor"
> 
> 
> Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de wrote:
> > 
> > This time the make proceeded up till check_swap.c
> > (btw, I don't necessarily need this check on this AIX box)
> > where a floorf definition wasn't found.
> > 
> > Shall I kick out check_swap as a make target altogether,
> > or can someone advise me how to overcome this quirk?
> > 
> 
> Kicking it out is probably the easiest thing to do.
> 
> The simplest way of alleviating your griefs (current and in the
near 
> future) is probably to build only the plugins you need. This 
> is easiest 
> accomplished by this tiny sequence of commands;
> 
> $ cd plugins
> $ make check_disk check_proc check_somethingelse
check_anotherplugin
> 
> I'm sure you get the idea. Assuming the Makefile is properly
written, 
> all required dependencies should be built automagically.
Building one 
> plugin at the time might be the best way to go, as it will 
> allow you to 
> move forward with the easy things quickly while leaving
problems for 
> when you have time to deal with them.
> 
> -- 
> Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
> OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
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>