[Nagiosplug-help] Compiling pst3 on Solaris 8 (Solution?)

[Stevens, Michael]

I've been trying to compile nagios-plugins 1.4.12 under Solaris 8
without much success.  I've been getting the following message during
make:


make[2]: Entering directory
`/disk0/build/nagios-plugins-1.4.12/plugins-root'
if gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/nagios/share/locale\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../lib -I../gl -I../intl -I../plugins
-I/usr/local/ssl/include  -I/usr/local/ssl/include -m64 -g -O2 -MT
pst3-pst3.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/pst3-pst3.Tpo" -c -o pst3-pst3.o `test -f
'pst3.c' || echo './'`pst3.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/pst3-pst3.Tpo" ".deps/pst3-pst3.Po"; else rm -f
".deps/pst3-pst3.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc  -g -O2  -L.
-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -o pst3 -m64 pst3-pst3.o -lkvm -lnsl -lsocket -ldl
gcc -g -O2 -o pst3 -m64 pst3-pst3.o
-L/disk0/build/nagios-plugins-1.4.12/plugins-root -L/usr/local/ssl/lib
-lkvm -lnsl -lsocket -ldl
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
rpl_strerror                        pst3-pst3.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to pst3
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status


I can't find any external references to rpl_strerror, but there is a
Nagios reference to that in gl/string.h, and of course a gl/strerror.c
file.  If I remove the #include <string.h> from plugins-root/pst3.c,
then I get a clean compile.  Better yet, pst3 runs correctly on Solaris
8, 9, and 10.  Note too that pst3.c complies and runs cleanly without
the #include <string.h> on Solaris 10 as well.

I'm not a C programmer, so I'm not sure if this is the correct solution.
Could someone please verify this fix, and if it's appropriate include it
in the next release?

-- 
Mike Stevens | Senior UNIX Administrator
Affymetrix, Inc.

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