ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .VA_COPY <-- Can anyone tell me how to fix this????

[Andreas Ericsson]

Kenneth Klein wrote:
> Thanks for the advice.
> 
> "to the top of the file" <-- which file are you referring to? Makefile?
> 

lib/snprintf.c

#undef is a C preprocessor directive, so I thought it was obvious. Sorry 
about that.

> The systems I am working on all run AIX 5.3. I do have Linux (SLES) 
> running on one partition in one of our 3 p570's, but the AIX LPARs are 
> the ones I want to monitor.
> 
> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>> Kenneth Klein wrote:
>>
>>> I finally got nagios to "make all" and make etc. Then I dl.ed the 
>>> source for the plugins, I grabbed the latest stable verson.
>>>
>>> I got this error when I ran make all.
>>>
>>> ar: Creating an archive file libsnprintf.a.
>>>        gcc  -g -O2  -L. -L/lib -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.
>>>
>>
>> The configure script seems to not have picked up that your system 
>> can't handle the VA_COPY macro properly. There are macros for it in 
>> lib/snprintf.c which can circumvent this. Adding
>> #undef HAVE_VA_COPY
>> #undef HAVE__VA_COPY
>> to the top of the file should at least make the plugins compile, 
>> although I can't guarantee they won't segfault en masse. That will 
>> depend on your systems vsprintf() implementation.
>>
>> If it's at all possible, you should try running Nagios on either Linux 
>> or *BSD. Older systems doesn't have the asprintf() function and the 
>> current plugin distribution sadly relies heavily on it being there.
>>
> 

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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