alloca.h does not exist in FreeBSD.

[Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)]

Hi Ton,

How can we find out the coreutils version? 
Basically I'm using FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE, and have experienced this issue 
with the plugins.  My m4 version is 1.4.7.  I don't know which version 
of coreutils 6.1 runs against though?

As soon as FreeBSD 6.2 is released (couple weeks) I'll be upgrading my 
test system to it so can check again with it.

Andy.

Ton Voon wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I replied to Jason earlier, but forgot to copy the list. I'd like to 
> know if anyone else on a recent *BSD is having these problems with 
> coreutils 5.96.
>
> Ton
>
> On 3 Nov 2006, at 09:03, Ton Voon wrote:
>
>> Hi Jason,
>>
>> The Nagios Plugins uses a lot of the libraries from GNU's coreutils, 
>> of which alloca.h is taken. My guess is that the version we've sync'd 
>> with does not work on FreeBSD 5.5. Can you please download 
>> coreutils-5.96 from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/coreutils/ and see if 
>> that compiles cleanly. If it does, then I've probably missed out some 
>> m4 file - any help here would be great. 
>>
>> If it doesn't compile and looks like the same problem, then please 
>> try newer versions of coreutils.
>>
>> If we need to sync NP with a newer version of coreutils, this is much 
>> harder work.
>>
>> Ton
>>
>> On 3 Nov 2006, at 04:02, Jason Kerr wrote:
>>
>>> Problem: regex_internal.h includes alloca.h which does not exist in 
>>> FreeBSD.
>>>
>>> Version: nagios-plugins-1.4.5
>>> OS: FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE
>>>
>>> Snipped output from config.log:
>>> configure:35748: checking for working alloca.h
>>> configure:35769: gcc -o conftest -g -O2   -L. conftest.c  >&5
>>> conftest.c:127:20: alloca.h: No such file or directory
>>> configure:35775: $? = 1
>>> configure: failed program was:
>>> | /* confdefs.h.  */
>>> |
>>>
>>>
>>> Snipped output from make:
>>> In file included from regex.c:55:
>>> regex_internal.h:458:20: alloca.h: No such file or directory
>>> *** Error code 1
>>>
>>> Stop in /usr/home/xxx/nagios-plugins-1.4.5/lib.
>>> *** Error code 1
>>>
>>> Stop in /usr/home/xxx/nagios-plugins-1.4.5/lib.
>>> *** Error code 1
>>>
>>> Stop in /usr/home/xxx/nagios-plugins-1.4.5/lib.
>>> *** Error code 1
>>>
>>> Stop in /usr/home/xxx/nagios-plugins-1.4.5.
>>> *** Error code 1
>>>
>>> Stop in /usr/home/xxx/nagios-plugins-1.4.5.
>>>
>>>
>>> In FreeBSD the alloca function is contained in stdlib.h, but the 
>>> manpage discourages its use.  "BUGS  The alloca() function is machine 
>>> and compiler dependent; its use is dis-couraged."
>>>
>>>
>>> In regex_internal.h do we need something like:
>>> #ifdef HAVE_ALLOCA_H
>>>     #include <alloca.h>
>>> #else
>>>    /* do nothing??? */
>>> #endif
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jason
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
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