[Nagiosplug-devel] New plugins, autoconf & pre-built binaries

[Ton Voon]

On Saturday, March 29, 2003, at 03:36  am, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
>> 2) I'm having terrible problems with the poll calls in check_cpu as
>> Darwin does not include sys/poll.h and I can't seem to get them into
>> lib/ using autoconf 2.13. Works fine in autoconf 2.5x as I use the
>> AC_LIBOBJ function, but this kicks up lots of fusses when run in 
>> v2.13.
>> Another reason to update?
>>
> 	Yeah because of the problems with this was partially why the
> getaddrinfo.[ch] and gethostbyname.[ch] went into plugins/ rather than 
> lib/, the
> other part was the linking issues... Didn't make sure to link all 
> plugins
> against the socket libraries if they didn't make socket calls which 
> was what it
> would have done... Possibly need to consider a libnagiosplugin*.a file 
> that is
> socket calls and one for non-socket functions? Also the 
> AC_CHECK_MEMBERS
> function that was added for the check_disk plugin (I believe) also 
> makes a
> requirement for 2.57 as AC_CHECK_MEMBERS is not in 2.13... So it 
> almost seems
> like moving to 2.57 is the way to go... I've also been looking around 
> and it
> seems we have a whole lot of tests being done for stuff that doesn't 
> appear to
> be used anywhere... This may be from old code who knows, but maybe 
> before the
> next release we should take a good look and audit things...
Sorry, I think I introduced the AC_CHECK_MEMBERS problem because I 
updated ls-mntd-fs.m4 to fix a Darwin issue. Compiles okay on autoconf 
2.52 on my main system.

Moving to autoconf 2.5x would get my vote as we seem to be left behind 
as we code around problems which newer autoconfs will fix. I think 
Karl's objection is that it places a requirement on people that pull 
the main CVS version, but, with the daily builds and (future) platform 
packages, maybe that won't be such a problem anymore?

Ton