Compiling nagios-plugins-1.3.1 on AIX 5.2

[Voon, Ton]

We received reports that 1.3.1 did not compile successfully on AIX 4/5. The
1.4alpha release should be okay - please try that.

Ton

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ewan Leith [mailto:ejl at man.fwltech.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 10:21 AM
> To: 'MT Morales'; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Compiling nagios-plugins-1.3.1 on AIX 5.2
> 
> 
> Sounds like the ./configure isn't picking up the fact that AIX has a
> va_copy, run ./configure again and look for a line:
> 
> checking for __va_copy... yes
> 
> If you don't see it, then maybe you need to hard-code it, if 
> so i'll look
> through my configure and see what's its detecting it as.
> 
> Ewan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MT Morales [mailto:nagios at pensol.net]
> > Sent: 03 December 2003 23:13
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Compiling nagios-plugins-1.3.1 on AIX 5.2
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Can someone suggest what the problem may be? I've been trying to 
> > compile nagios-plugins-1.3.1 on AIX 5.2 using the gnu 
> > compiling tools, 
> > and no matter what I do, I get stuck with the following error 
> > when "make" tries to link check_disk binary:
> > 
> >         gcc  -g -O2  -L. -o check_disk  check_disk.o 
> > utils.o ../lib/libnagiosplug.a popen.o -lsnprintf -lsnprintf
> > ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .VA_COPY
> > ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more 
> > information.
> > collect2: ld returned 8 exit status
> > make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
> > 
> > 
> > Also according to the the config.log file the getloadavg() 
> > function is 
> > missing on the system:
> > 
> > configure:3837: checking for getloadavg
> > configure:3887: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   conftest.c  >&5
> > ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: getloadavg
> > 
> >  So nagios-plugins defines its own getloadavg() in 
> getloadavg.c file,
> > but still it doesn't seem to work properly under AIX 5.2.
> > 
> > Any ideas or workaround will be appreciated.
> > Thanks,
> > Tomas
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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