[Nagiosplug-devel] 1.4.0-alpha3 check_dhcp build failure on HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00

[Andreas Ericsson]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Stanley Hopcroft wrote:
> 
>> Dear Sir,
>>
>> I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 02:53:46PM -0600, C. Bensend wrote:
>>
>>> Hey folks,
>>>
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
>>> check_dhcp.c:140: parse error before `}'
>>> check_dhcp.c:140: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
>>> check_dhcp.c:146: parse error before `u_int32_t'
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> check_dhcp is an important plugin __but__
>> 1 even if you did get it to compile on HP-UX, it would _not_ work on 
>> that platform since the code to get the MAC address is very system 
>> dependent, and I simply don't know how to do so on HP-UX (AIX is the 
>> same).
>>
>> The check would fail with an 'unsupported arch' at runtime if it 
>> compiled.
>>
>> The only platforms I _think_ should work are
>> . Linux
>>
>> . Solaris 9
>>
>> . FreeBSD
>>
>> 2 the cross platform issues are also exaggerated by Sun and HP 
>> apparently using different names for integer vars of fixed length (8, 
>> 16, 32 etc in unsigned and signed).
>>
>> Have a look at the dreadfull things the code does to make Sol compile.
>>
>> If you can find what names it uses for these ints (/sys/*int.h ?), 
>> that would be helpful. Send to me.
>>
>> What another (strange Perl) check_dhcp plugin does is lie about the 
>> MAC address; it doesn't check the lease of _this_ host but that the 
>> DHCP server can provide a lease back to the requester.
>>
>> Would this be a better approach for the less common archs (AIX, HP-UX, 
>> [OS-X should be *BSD so may be Ok] ?
>>
>> 3 Any chance of brief shell/ssh access on an HP-UX ?
>>
> 
> Go to http://www.hp.com/dspp
> Click "Register for DSPP membership" in the "I want to" section of links 
> in the middle of the page. You can get shell (telnet, for some reason) 
> and ftp access to several different versions and flavours of *BSD, 
> HP-UX, OpenVMS, Linux and whatnot, running on a multitude of different 
> architectures. If you have special build requirements you can request 
> installation of certain software (which is usually denied, but still...).
> 
> I've got accounts for all of their compile-farm machines. If, for some 
> reason, your registration isn't approved, I might be able to take a look 
> at it for you (although they're usually under some pretty heavy load so 
> it's not very fast going).

Sorry about that. It's at www.testdrive.hp.com
Apparently they have updated the web structure since I signed up.

> 
>>
>>>
>>>   I am absolutely able to test a new version of check_dhcp.c, or
>>> patches, or whatever.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Benny
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Yours sincerely.
>>
>>
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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