alloca.h does not exist in FreeBSD.

[Ton Voon]

Andy,

Can you goto http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/coreutils/ and download 5.96  
and try and compile on your platform. As the plugins are currently  
syncd with this version, if coreutils compiles, it means I've made a  
mistake somewhere in copying their files over.

If their code fails to compile, it is a problem with their code,  
which they've probably fixed in a newer version - please confirm by  
compiling their latest version. If a newer coreutils works, then I  
need to take some time to re-sync the plugins with their latest code,  
but that takes time...

Ton

On 3 Nov 2006, at 14:32, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote:

> 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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