FYI: CVS HEAD breaks mk-livestatus

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 11/10/2010 06:13 PM, Jochen Bern wrote:
> ... by means of having lost is_contact_member_of_contactgroup .
> 
>> [1289407514] Error: Could not load module '/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o'
>>     ->  /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/checkresults/nebmodJvag6j: undefined symbol:
>>     is_contact_member_of_contactgroup
> 
> Tested with livestatus 1.1.6p1 and 1.1.8 (= current). Difference
> appeared somewhere between 3.2.3 release and 05-Nov-2010:
> 
>> # find nagios-3.2.3-CVS-20101105 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l is_contact_member_of_contactgroup
>> # find nagios-3.2.3 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l is_contact_member_of_contactgroup
>> nagios-3.2.3/common/objects.c
>> nagios-3.2.3/include/objects.h
> 
> [Browses CVS]
> 
> Um, latest commit for both files, from 23-Oct-2010 09:59:59 UTC. Seems
> the stuff wasn't *quite* as dead as believed ... :-}
> 

Well, it was dead from the point of view of Nagios. It would help if
module authors refrain from using functionality that Nagios itself
doesn't use.

Anyways, I've restored it now, with a comment that it is to be removed
when we release Nagios 4 and are allowed to break the API.

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